Demand

The term demand can refer, in this encyclopedia:

Generally

• to one request;
• to one alms;
• to one Question;
• to one Search;

Social Sciences

Law

• to one judicial complaintthe act of procedural initiation;
  • to one reconventional demandin the same judicial process, at the time of responding to the demand for which the defendant has been subjected;
  • to the reply of the demand, procedural act by which the defendant alleges its exceptions and defences in respect of a judicial complaint;

Economy

The meaning of demand covers a wide range of goods and services that can be purchased at market prices, either by a specific consumer or by the total set of consumers in a certain place.

• to the supply and demandthe basic economic model of market price formation of goods;
• to the demandthe quantity and quality of goods and services that can be acquired by a consumer or group of consumers;
  • to one elastic demand;
  • to one inelastic demand;
  • to one aggregate demandthe amount of goods and services that inhabitants, companies, public entities and the rest of the world want and can consume from the country for a certain level of price;
  • to one demand for money, which explains why individuals decide to keep a portion of their wealth in the form of money, renouncing the profitability they could obtain if they put such resources into other assets;
  • to one demand in the labour marketthe amount of workers that companies or employers are willing to hire;
  • to one crisis of demandeconomic crisis caused by an imbalance in the market that presents a lack of demand;
  • to one demand curve, the graphic representation of the mathematical relationship between the maximum amount of a certain good or service that a consumer would be willing to pay at each price of that good;

Politics and society

• to one political demand;
• to one social demand;

Natural sciences

Chemistry

• to the chemical demand for oxygen, parameter that measures the amount of substances susceptible to oxidation by chemical means that there are dissolved or suspended in a liquid sample;
• Biological oxygen demand, parameter that measures the amount of matter that can be consumed or oxidized by biological means that contains a liquid, dissolved or suspended sample;

Place names

• to the Sierra de la Demanda or of Arandio, the protected Spanish natural space, belonging to the Iberian Cordillera;
  • to the Sierra de la Demanda regionregion of the province of Burgos (Spain);
  • a Monterubio de la Demandathe municipality of that region;

Other uses

• a Demandsaurusa genus of dinosaur, so called the Sierra de la Demanda;
• a Infallible demanda novel by Scott Turow, published in 1999.