What is the meaning of DEMAND. Phrases containing DEMAND
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v. t.
A diligent seeking or search; manifested want; desire to possess; request; as, a demand for certain goods; a person's company is in great demand.
a.
Further; remoter; more distant; succeeding; as, ulterior demands or propositions; ulterior views; what ulterior measures will be adopted is uncertain.
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Not conscionable; not conforming to reason; unreasonable; exceeding the limits of any reasonable claim or expectation; inordinate; as, an unconscionable person or demand; unconscionable size.
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An action to recover damages against one who found goods, and would not deliver them to the owner on demand; an action which lies in any case to recover the value of goods wrongfully converted by another to his own use. In this case the finding, though alleged, is an immaterial fact; the injury lies in the conversion.
n.
A woman who demands.
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Specifically, a monarch, or other ruler or master, who uses power to oppress his subjects; a person who exercises unlawful authority, or lawful authority in an unlawful manner; one who by taxation, injustice, or cruel punishment, or the demand of unreasonable services, imposes burdens and hardships on those under his control, which law and humanity do not authorize, or which the purposes of government do not require; a cruel master; an oppressor.
n.
One who demands.
v. i.
To make a demand; to inquire.
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That may be demanded or claimed.
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The production of less than is demanded or of less than the usual supply.
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One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff.
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Contrary to justice and right; prompted by a spirit of injustice; wrongful; as, an unjust sentence; an unjust demand; an unjust accusation.
v. t.
To require as necessary or useful; to be in urgent need of; hence, to call for; as, the case demands care.
v. t.
The act of demanding; an asking with authority; a peremptory urging of a claim; a claiming or challenging as due; requisition; as, the demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand.
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That which one demands or has a right to demand; thing claimed as due; claim; as, demands on an estate.
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The right or title in virtue of which anything may be claimed; as, to hold a demand against a person.
v. t.
To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience.
n.
The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.
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