Difference between Demand and Need

What is the difference between Demand and Need?

Demand as a verb is to request forcefully. while Need as a verb is to have an absolute requirement for.

Demand

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To request forcefully. To claim a right to something. To ask forcefully for information. To require of someone. To issue a summons to court.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The desire to purchase goods and services. The amount of a good or service that a consumer is willing to buy at a particular price. A need. A claim for something. A requirement. An urgent request. An order. (electric) the 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.

Example sentence: No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

Need

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Something required.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To have an absolute requirement for.To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.To be obliged or required to.

Example sentence: Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.

We hope you now know whether to use Demand or Need in your sentence.

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