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Noun: demand curve
  1. In economics, the graph depicting the relationship between the price of a certain commodity and the amount of it that consumers are willing and able to purchase at that given price.
    "However, the demand curve of each oligopolist will be more elastic than the demand curve for the industry as a whole."

Derived forms: demand curves

Type of: curve, curved shape

Encyclopedia: Demand curve