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📚 noun • entry_id 12735

demand

/dɪˈmɑːnd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
demanda • demanda económica
The desire to purchase goods and services.
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 potent…
Prices usually go up when demand exceeds supply.
demanda • demanda económica
The market force that causes buyers to be both willing and able to buy a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently salable at any given price point; the amount itself.
Demand for the kitchenware with the pastel colorway has been running low lately, at an average of only 37 units per week.
Supply and demand ebb and flow in a complex interplay.
intima • intimación
A forceful claim for something.
Modern society is responding to women's demands for equality.
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…
exigencia
An order.
📚 verb • entry_id 12736

demand

/dɪˈmɑːnd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
apercollar • demandar • exigir • intimar
To request forcefully.
I demand to see the manager.
recabar
To claim a right to something.
According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant pa…
The bank is demanding the mortgage payment.
demandar
To issue a summons to court.