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
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Demand as a noun:
The desire to purchase goods and services.
Examples:
"Prices usually go up when demand exceeds supply."
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Demand as a noun (economics):
The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
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Demand as a noun:
A forceful claim for something.
Examples:
"Modern society is responding to women's demands for equality."
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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."
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Demand as a noun:
An urgent request.
Examples:
"She couldn't ignore the newborn baby's demands for attention."
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Demand as a noun:
An order.
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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.
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Demand as a verb:
To request forcefully.
Examples:
"I demand to see the manager."
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Demand as a verb:
To claim a right to something.
Examples:
"The bank is demanding the mortgage payment."
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Demand as a verb:
To ask forcefully for information.
Examples:
"I demand an immediate explanation."
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Demand as a verb:
To require of someone.
Examples:
"This job demands a lot of patience."
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Demand as a verb (legal):
To issue a summons to court.
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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."
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Expect as a verb:
To consider obligatory or required.
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Expect as a verb:
To consider reasonably due.
Examples:
"You are expected to get the task done by the end of next week."
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Expect as a verb (continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple):
To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
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Expect as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To wait for; to await.
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Expect as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):
To wait; to stay.
Examples:
"rfquotek Sandys"