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demand

verb
  1. To ask for urgently or insistently: call for, claim, exact, insist on or upon , require, requisition. Idiom: cry out for. See request
  2. To assert one's right to: claim. Idiom: lay claim to. See give, owned, request
  3. To have as a need or prerequisite: ask, call for, entail, involve, necessitate, require, take. See necessary, over
noun
  1. The act of demanding: call, claim, cry, exaction, requisition. See request
  2. Something asked for or needed: exigence, exigency (often used in plural), need, want. See necessary, over

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