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Demand

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.

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Verb group 6

Claim 84% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

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Claim 84% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

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Exact 84% connected

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; pr…

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Exact 84% connected

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; pr…

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Activity 76% connected

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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Bespeak 76% connected

To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.

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Cite 76% connected

To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon.

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Claim 76% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

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Concern 76% connected

To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

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Condition 76% connected

Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength,…

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Duty 76% connected

That which is due; payment.

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Obligation 76% connected

The act of obligating.

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Pertain 76% connected

To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocea…

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Petition 76% connected

A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a perso…

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Postulation 76% connected

The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.

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Quest 76% connected

The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property…

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Refer 76% connected

To carry or send back.

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Relate 76% connected

To bring back; to restore.

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Request 76% connected

The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.

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Responsibility 76% connected

The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable, as for a trust, debt, or obligation.

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Status 76% connected

State; condition; position of affairs.

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Summon 76% connected

To call, bid, or cite; to notify to come to appear; -- often with up.

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Summons 76% connected

The act of summoning; a call by authority, or by the command of a superior, to appear at a place named, or to attend to some duty.

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Touch 76% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Narrower term 16

aggregate demand 76% connected

The total amount households, firms and government want to spend in an economy.

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Call 76% connected

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

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Challenge 76% connected

An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message con…

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Claim 76% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

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Consumption 76% connected

The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.

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Deficiency 76% connected

The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.

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Exaction 76% connected

The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as,…

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Insistence 76% connected

The quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing; the act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence; urgency.

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Insisting 76% connected

of Insist

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Lack 76% connected

Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.

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Necessity 76% connected

The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.

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Requisition 76% connected

The act of requiring, as of right; a demand or application made as by authority.

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Ultimatum 76% connected

A final proposition, concession, or condition; especially, the final propositions, conditions, or terms, offered by either of the parties in a diplom…

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Usance 76% connected

Use; usage; employment.

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Use 76% connected

The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…

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Want 76% connected

The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…

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Manner of action 22

Ask 76% connected

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

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Behoove 76% connected

To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally.

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Behove 76% connected

and derivatives. See Behoove, &c.

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Call 76% connected

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

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Claim 76% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

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Clamor 76% connected

A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.

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Command 76% connected

To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.

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Compel 76% connected

To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.

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Cost 76% connected

A rib; a side; a region or coast.

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Depend 76% connected

To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.

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Deserve 76% connected

To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of…

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Draw 76% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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Dun 76% connected

A mound or small hill.

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Exact 76% connected

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; pr…

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Expect 76% connected

To wait for; to await.

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Govern 76% connected

To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority.

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Merit 76% connected

The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.

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Occupy 76% connected

To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.

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Require 76% connected

To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

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Ride 76% connected

To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Want 76% connected

The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…

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Derivationally related 6

Demander 74% connected

One who demands.

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Demander 74% connected

One who demands.

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Expect 74% connected

To wait for; to await.

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Expect 74% connected

To wait for; to await.

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Want 74% connected

The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Want 74% connected

The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…

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Synonym 9

Ask 92% connected

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Exact 92% connected

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; pr…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Involve 92% connected

To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

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Necessitate 92% connected

To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable.

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Need 92% connected

A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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Postulate 92% connected

Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to w…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Require 92% connected

To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

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Requirement 92% connected

The act of requiring; demand; requisition.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Take 92% connected

Taken.

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Near synonym 1

Scarcity 84% connected

The quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of plenty; short supply; penu…

economics fundamentals 25% interchangeable

What consumers are willing and able to buy.

Antonym 2

Supply 94% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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Supply 94% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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