The difference between Demand and Expect

When used as verbs, demand means to request forcefully, whereas expect means to look for (mentally).


Demand is also noun with the meaning: the desire to purchase goods and services.

check bellow for the other definitions of Demand and Expect

  1. Demand as a noun:

    The desire to purchase goods and services.

    Examples:

    "Prices usually go up when demand exceeds supply."

  2. Demand as a noun (economics):

    The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.

  3. Demand as a noun:

    A forceful claim for something.

    Examples:

    "Modern society is responding to women's demands for equality."

  4. Demand as a noun:

    A requirement.

    Examples:

    "His job makes many demands on his time."

    "There is a demand for voluntary health workers in the poorer parts of Africa and Asia."

  5. Demand as a noun:

    An urgent request.

    Examples:

    "She couldn't ignore the newborn baby's demands for attention."

  6. Demand as a noun:

    An order.

  7. Demand as a noun (electricity supply):

    More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval.

  1. Demand as a verb:

    To request forcefully.

    Examples:

    "I demand to see the manager."

  2. Demand as a verb:

    To claim a right to something.

    Examples:

    "The bank is demanding the mortgage payment."

  3. Demand as a verb:

    To ask forcefully for information.

    Examples:

    "I demand an immediate explanation."

  4. Demand as a verb:

    To require of someone.

    Examples:

    "This job demands a lot of patience."

  5. Demand as a verb (legal):

    To issue a summons to court.

  1. Expect as a verb:

    To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).

    Examples:

    "I expect to receive wages.  I expect that the troops will be defeated."

  2. Expect as a verb:

    To consider obligatory or required.

  3. Expect as a verb:

    To consider reasonably due.

    Examples:

    "You are expected to get the task done by the end of next week."

  4. Expect as a verb (continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple):

    To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.

  5. Expect as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To wait for; to await.

  6. Expect as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To wait; to stay.

    Examples:

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