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      "phonetic": [
        "dɪˈmænd"
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      "etymologies": [
        "From late Middle English demaunden, from Old French demander, from Latin dēmandō, dēmandāre."
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          "name": "Noun",
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              "mean": "The desire to purchase goods and services.\nPrices usually go up when demand exceeds supply.\n2013 September-October,  Michael Sivak,  “Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply?”, in  American Scientist:Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand."
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              "mean": "(economics) The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price."
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              "mean": "A forceful claim for something.\nModern society is responding to women's demands for equality.\n1897 December (indicated as 1898),  Winston Churchill,  chapter VIII, in  The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;  . Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition."
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              "mean": "A requirement.\nHis job makes many demands on his time.\nThere is a demand for voluntary health workers in the poorer parts of Africa and Asia."
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              "mean": "An urgent request.\nShe couldn't ignore the newborn baby's demands for attention."
            },
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              "mean": "An order."
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              "mean": "(electricity supply) More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval."
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              "mean": "To request forcefully.\nI demand to see the manager."
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              "mean": "To claim a right to something.\n2013 June 8,  “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in  The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures  roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.\nThe bank is demanding the mortgage payment."
            },
            {
              "mean": "To ask forcefully for information.\nI demand an immediate explanation."
            },
            {
              "mean": "To require of someone.\nThis job demands a lot of patience."
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            {
              "mean": "(law) To issue a summons to court."
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