The Collaborative International Dictionary
Demand \De*mand"\, n. [F. demande, fr. demander. See Demand, v. t.]
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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.
The demand [is] by the word of the holy ones.
--Dan. iv. 17.He that has confidence to turn his wishes into demands will be but a little way from thinking he ought to obtain them.
--Locke. Earnest inquiry; question; query.
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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.
In 1678 came forth a second edition [Pilgrim's Progress] with additions; and then the demand became immense.
--Macaulay. That which one demands or has a right to demand; thing claimed as due; claim; as, demands on an estate.
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(Law)
The asking or seeking for what is due or claimed as due.
The right or title in virtue of which anything may be claimed; as, to hold a demand against a person.
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A thing or amount claimed to be due.
In demand, in request; being much sought after.
On demand, upon presentation and request of payment.
Wiktionary
prep.phr. (context idiomatic English) When needed or required.
Wikipedia
On Demand is the brand-name of a range of services from Sky designed to compete with video on demand services currently offered by rival companies such as Virgin TV or BT Vision as well as internet television services such as LoveFilm and Netflix.
On Demand has been available in various forms including: a PC version using a peer-to-peer platform over broadband Internet connection, a version for users of 3G mobile telephones, a push video on demand service for subscribers equipped with a Sky+ HD set-top box or the PVR3 version of the Sky+ set top box and a pull video-on-demand service.
Usage examples of "on demand".
It allows users to select bits and pieces from a library of e-books, combine them into a totally new tome and print and bind the latter on demand.
I didn't lose more than half of it in spillage, but I could see she was considering calling either police or medical aid to cope with an alcoholic with the DT's or a drug addict who had lost his hypodermic, whichever the case might be, but she was a brave woman and supplied me with my second jonge Genever on demand.
The cost of these, as well as the copy of Ossian, will be (for me), on demand, answered by Mr.
We'll have to pretend you got recaptured somewhere along the way, so we may have to produce a Crocodile Man on demand.