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1. 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"

1. 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. Require as useful, just, or proper
   "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"
   - necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for
    
3. Claim as due or just
   "The bank demanded payment of the loan"
   - exact
    
4. Lay legal claim to
    
5. Summon to court
    
6. Ask to be informed of
   "I demand an explanation"

See also: demander, demandingly, difficult, exacting, exigent, hard, hard to please, hard-to-please, needy, rigorous, stern, strict, stringent, tight

Type of: bespeak, call for, cite, claim, quest, request, summon, summons

Antonym: undemanding

Encyclopedia: Demand