Definition of demands

"demands" in the noun sense

1. demand

an urgent or peremptory request

"his demands for attention were unceasing"

2. demand

the ability and desire to purchase goods and services

"the automobile reduced the demand for buggywhips"

"the demand exceeded the supply"

3. requirement, demand

required activity

"the requirements of his work affected his health"

"there were many demands on his time"

4. demand

the act of demanding

"the kidnapper's exorbitant demands for money"

5. need, demand

a condition requiring relief

"she satisfied his need for affection"

"God has no need of men to accomplish His work"

"there is a demand for jobs"

"demands" in the verb sense

1. demand

request urgently and forcefully

"The victim's family is demanding compensation"

"The boss demanded that he be fired immediately"

"She demanded to see the manager"

2. necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand

require as useful, just, or proper

"It takes nerve to do what she did"

"success usually requires hard work"

"This job asks a lot of patience and skill"

"This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"

"This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"

"This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"

3. demand, exact

claim as due or just

"The bank demanded payment of the loan"

4. demand

lay legal claim to

5. demand

summon to court

6. demand

ask to be informed of

"I demand an explanation"

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Quotations for demands

Let us do what honor demands. [ Racine ]

Awake, my soul! stretch every nerve.
And press with vigor on;
A heavenly race demands thy zeal.
And an immortal crown. [ Philip Doddridge ]

A fool demands much, but he is a greater that gives it. [ Proverb ]

He that demands, misseth not, unless his demands be foolish. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

When a lover gives, he demands - and much more than he has given. [ Parny ]

Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity. [ Cicero ]

Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite, - energy. [ Ruskin ]

Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it. [ Phillips Brooks ]

Love requires not so much proofs, as expressions, of love. Love demands little else than the power to feel and to requite love. [ Richter ]

We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its performances. [ J. F. Boyes ]

Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families, and good jobs for themselves. These are just and reasonable demands of righteous people and a righteous public... [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

Nature has lent us life, as we do a sum of money; only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that we received it? [ Cicero ]

The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself. [ Froude ]

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying every one of his demands will oblige you to stop short at last, after he has become a little headstrong. [ Henry Home ]

As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite - variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite - energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not. [ Ruskin ]

demands in Scrabble®

The word demands is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters demands:

MADDENS
(94 = 44 + 50)
DEMANDS
(94 = 44 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

demands, maddens

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word demands

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In demands

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demands in Words With Friends™

The word demands is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters demands:

MADDENS
(110 = 75 + 35)
DEMANDS
(110 = 75 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

demands, maddens

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word demands

DEMANDS
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In demands

MADDENS
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DEMANDS
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MADDENS
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Words within the letters of demands

2 letter words in demands (8 words)

3 letter words in demands (15 words)

6 letter words in demands (8 words)

7 letter words in demands (Anagrams) (2 words)

demands + 1 blank (1 word)

Words containing the sequence demands

Words that start with demands (1 word)

Words with demands in them (1 word)

Words that end with demands (3 words)

Word Growth involving demands

Shorter words in demands

an and ands

an and demand

em demand

an man demand

ma man demand

Longer words containing demands

counterdemands

redemands