Demander

de·mand  (d-mnd)

v. de·mand·ed, de·mand·ing, de·mands

v.tr.

1. To ask for urgently or peremptorily: demand an investigation into the murder; demanding that he leave immediately; demanded to speak to the manager.

2. To claim as just or due: demand repayment of a loan.

3. To ask to be informed of: I demand a reason for this interruption.

4. To require as useful, just, proper, or necessary; call for: a gem that demands a fine setting.

5. Law

a. To summon to court.

b. To claim formally; lay legal claim to.

v.intr.

To make a demand.

n.

1. The act of demanding.

2. Something demanded: granted the employees' demands.

3. An urgent requirement or need: the heavy demands of her job; the emotional demands of his marriage; an increased oxygen demand.

4. The state of being sought after: in great demand as a speaker.

5. Economics

a. The desire to possess a commodity or make use of a service, combined with the ability to purchase it.

b. The amount of a commodity or service that people are ready to buy for a given price: Supply should rise to meet demand.

6. Computer Science A coding technique in which a command to read or write is initiated as the need for a new block of data occurs, thus eliminating the need to store data.

7. Law A formal claim.

8. Archaic An emphatic question or inquiry.

Idiom:

on demand

1. When presented for payment: a note payable on demand.

2. When needed or asked for: fed the baby on demand.

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[Middle English demanden, from Old French demander, to charge with doing, and from Medieval Latin dmandre, to demand, both from Latin, to entrust : d-, de- + mandre, to entrust; see man-² in Indo-European roots.]

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de·manda·ble adj.

de·mander n.

Synonyms: demand, claim, exact, require
These verbs mean to ask for urgently or insistently: demanding better working conditions; claiming repayment of a debt; exacted obedience from the child; tax payments required by law.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

demander - a person who makes demands individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"