Demanded vs Requested - What's the difference?
demanded | requested |
(demand)
The desire to purchase goods and services.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (economics) The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
A need.
A claim for something.
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, passage=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;
A requirement.
An urgent request.
An order.
(electricity supply) A measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval.
To request forcefully.
To claim a right to something.
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, title= To ask forcefully for information.
To require of someone.
(legal) To issue a summons to court.
(request)
Act of (l).
* Shakespeare
A formal (l) requesting something.
of being sought after.
* Sir W. Temple
(obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.
* Bible, Psalms cvi. 15
As verbs the difference between demanded and requested
is that demanded is (demand) while requested is (request).demanded
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*demand
English
Alternative forms
* demaund, demaunde (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Michael Sivak
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Usage notes
One can also make demands on someone. * See for uses and meaning of demand collocated with these words.Synonyms
* (a requirement) impositionDerived terms
* demand-driven * in demand * on demandVerb
(en verb)Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=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 payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}
Synonyms
* * (ask strongly)requested
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Verb
(head)request
English
Noun
(en noun)- I will marry her, sir, at your request .
- Knowledge and fame were in as great request as wealth among us now.
- He gave them their request .