demand
Supply's economic counterpart
A demand is an order that something be done, handed over, or attended to.
There is usually an implied power imbalance between someone who makes a demand and the party the demand is addressed to; children do not legitimately make demands to their parents.
The verb demand has a predictable meaning of order someone to do something: The governor demanded the resignation of the secretary as soon as the scandal came to light.
Furnish or stock
- elasticityTendency to resume original form
- consumptionUsing up of resources
- productionMaking or generating something
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
goods · services · market · pricing · shortage · surplus · equilibrium · forecasting
Formal act of seeking
plea · inquiry · solicitation · entreaty · requisition · application · supplication · bid
Essential requirement
- necessityIndispensable requirement
- prerequisiteRequired prior condition
- essentialFundamentally necessary
- specificationDetailed technical requirement
standard · criterion · expectation · obligation · stipulation · condition · qualification · mandatory
Methodical arrangement or request
- directiveFormal command or instruction
- instructionGuidance for action
- decreeAuthoritative legal command
- dictateGive orders imperiously
ultimatum · injunction · summons · commandment · charge · dictation · insistence · assertion
Needing immediate attention
- pressingRequiring immediate attention
- insistentFirmly demanding attention
- exactingDemanding great care
- taxingRequiring great effort
strain · burden · overwhelming · relentless · competing · conflicting · mounting · increasing
supply
Furnish or stock
- elasticityTendency to resume original form
- consumptionUsing up of resources
- productionMaking or generating something
scarcity · goods · services · market · pricing · shortage · surplus · equilibrium · forecasting · curve
request
Formal act of seeking
appeal · plea · inquiry · solicitation · entreaty · requisition · application · supplication · bid · proposal
need
Essential requirement
- necessityIndispensable requirement
- prerequisiteRequired prior condition
- essentialFundamentally necessary
specification · standard · criterion · expectation · obligation · stipulation · condition · qualification · mandatory · compliance
order
Methodical arrangement or request
- directiveFormal command or instruction
- instructionGuidance for action
- decreeAuthoritative legal command
dictate · ultimatum · injunction · summons · commandment · charge · dictation · insistence · assertion · compel
urgent
Needing immediate attention
- pressingRequiring immediate attention
- insistentFirmly demanding attention
- exactingDemanding great care
taxing · strain · burden · overwhelming · relentless · competing · conflicting · mounting · increasing · high
- energyelectricity, power, oil, fuel, gas
- business termsfranchising, revenue stream, board meeting, gross margin, markdown
- capitalismcapitalism, free market, free enterprise, private property, profit motive
- consumer economyshopping, retail, advertising, brands, marketing
- economyGDP, money, inflation, inflation rate, GNP
- negotiationbargaining, bargain, negotiate, mediation, compromise
demandsupply
Furnish or stock
provision · availability · offering · surplus · oversupply
demandluxury
Expensive nonessential comfort
nonessential · frill · extra · amenity · extravagance
- in demandWidely wanted or needed
- on demandWhen requested, immediately provided
- ransom demandsCaptor's required payment conditions
- supply and demandPrice-determining economic forces
- high demand
- video on demandSelf-scheduled digital viewing
demanding, demanded, demands, undemanding, demand curve, demanders