demand

/di-ˈmand/

Middle English demaunde, demande "question, request, claim," borrowed from Anglo-French, noun derivative of demander, demaunder "to ask a question, claim as due"

noun

  1. an act of demanding or asking especially with authority

  2. something claimed as due or owed

  3. question

a demand for obedience

the demands of the workers' union

verb

  1. to call for something in an authoritative way : to make a demand : ask

  2. to ask or call for with authority : claim as due or just

  3. to call for urgently, imperiously, or insistently

demand claim require exact mean to ask or call for something as due or as necessary. demand implies peremptoriness and insistence and often the right to make requests that are to be regarded as commands. claim implies a demand for the delivery or concession of something due as one's own or one's right.

noun

  1. a bank deposit that can be withdrawn without advance notice