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de·mand·ing       [di-man-ding, -mahn-] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.requiring or claiming more than is generally felt by others to be due: a demanding teacher.
2.calling for intensive effort or attention; taxing: a demanding job.
[Origin: 1520–30; demand + -ing2]

—Related forms
de·mand·ing·ly, adverb
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de·mand       (dĭ-mānd')  Pronunciation Key 
v.   de·mand·ed, de·mand·ing, de·mands

v.   tr.
  1. To ask for urgently or peremptorily: demand an investigation into the murder; demanding that he leave immediately; demanded to speak to the manager.
  2. To claim as just or due: demand repayment of a loan.
  3. To ask to be informed of: I demand a reason for this interruption.
  4. To require as useful, just, proper, or necessary; call for: a gem that demands a fine setting.
  5. Law
    1. To summon to court.
    2. To claim formally; lay legal claim to.

v.   intr.
To make a demand.

n.  
  1. The act of demanding.
  2. Something demanded: granted the employees' demands.
  3. An urgent requirement or need: the heavy demands of her job; the emotional demands of his marriage; an increased oxygen demand.
  4. The state of being sought after: in great demand as a speaker.
  5. Economics
    1. The desire to possess a commodity or make use of a service, combined with the ability to purchase it.
    2. The amount of a commodity or service that people are ready to buy for a given price: Supply should rise to meet demand.
  6. Computer Science A coding technique in which a command to read or write is initiated as the need for a new block of data occurs, thus eliminating the need to store data.
  7. Law A formal claim.
  8. Archaic An emphatic question or inquiry.


[Middle English demanden, from Old French demander, to charge with doing, and from Medieval Latin dēmandāre, to demand, both from Latin, to entrust : dē-, de- + mandāre, to entrust; see man-2 in Indo-European roots.]

de·mand'a·ble adj., de·mand'er n.
Synonyms: These verbs mean to ask for urgently or insistently: demanding better working conditions; claiming repayment of a debt; exacted obedience from the child; tax payments required by law.

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de·mand·ing       (dĭ-mān'dĭng)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.   Requiring much effort or attention: exhausted by a demanding job. See Synonyms at burdensome.

de·mand'ing·ly adv.
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demanding

adjective
requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill; "found the job very demanding"; "a baby can be so demanding" [ant: undemanding] 

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