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  • 1 demand

    1. verb
    1) (to ask or ask for firmly and sharply: I demanded an explanation.) απαιτώ
    2) (to require or need: This demands careful thought.) απαιτώ
    2. noun
    1) (a request made so that it sounds like a command: They refused to meet the workers' demands for more money.) απαίτηση,αξίωση
    2) (an urgent claim: The children make demands on my time.) διεκδίκηση
    3) (willingness or desire to buy or obtain (certain goods etc); a need for (certain goods etc): There's no demand for books of this kind.) ζήτηση
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    - on demand

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  • 2 absurd

    [əb'sə:d]
    (unreasonable or ridiculous: These demands are absolutely absurd.) παράλογος
    - absurdity
    - absurdness

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  • 3 exorbitant

    [iɡ'zo:bitənt]
    ((of prices or demands) very high or unreasonable.) εξωφρενικός
    - exorbitance

    English-Greek dictionary > exorbitant

  • 4 give way

    1) (to stop in order to allow eg traffic to pass: Give way to traffic coming from the right.) δίνω προτεραιότητα
    2) (to break, collapse etc under pressure: The bridge will give way any day now.) υποχωρώ
    3) (to agree against one's will: I have no intention of giving way to demands like that.) υποχωρώ

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  • 5 hostage

    ['hosti‹]
    (a person who is held prisoner in order to ensure that the captor's demands etc will be carried out: The terrorists took three people with them as hostages; They took / were holding three people hostage.) όμηρος
    - hold someone hostage
    - hold hostage

    English-Greek dictionary > hostage

  • 6 hunger strike

    (a refusal to eat, as a form of protest or to force (someone) to agree to certain demands etc: The prisoners went on hunger strike as a protest against prison discipline.) απεργία πείνας

    English-Greek dictionary > hunger strike

  • 7 moderate

    1. ['modəreit] verb
    (to make or become less extreme: He was forced to moderate his demands; Gradually the pain moderated.) μετριάζω,-ομαι
    2. [-rət] adjective
    1) (keeping within reasonable limits; not extreme: The prices were moderate; moderate opinions.) μετρημένος,λογικός/μετριοπαθής
    2) (medium or average; not particularly good: workmanship of moderate quality.) μέτριος
    3. noun
    (a person whose views are not extreme: Politically, she's a moderate.) μετριοπαθής,κεντρώος
    - moderateness
    - moderation

    English-Greek dictionary > moderate

  • 8 persistent

    adjective She was persistent in her demands/denials; persistent questions.) επίμονος

    English-Greek dictionary > persistent

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  • demands — ► [plural] the things that a particular situation or person makes necessary: demands on sb/sth »Most managers feel there are too many demands on their time. changing/competing/conflicting demands »Staff are forced to face the conflicting demands… …   Financial and business terms

  • demands — index interrogatories Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • Demands of Hungarian Revolutionaries of 1956 — On October 23, 1956, a group of Hungarian students compiled a list of sixteen points containing key national policy demands. [1] Following an anti Soviet protest march through the Hungarian capital of Budapest, the students attempted to enter the …   Wikipedia

  • demands of nature —    urination and defecation    You might think gravity came first, followed by breathing:     ... walking with the sense of purpose proper to a man about to attend to the demands of nature. (Masters, 1976) …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • demands — de·mand || dɪ mɑːnd n. claim, requirement; strong request v. claim, require; strongly request …   English contemporary dictionary

  • demands — pressing requirements. → demand …   English new terms dictionary

  • demands — See demand; also terms and expressions following that word, which begin demand …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • DEMANDS — …   Useful english dictionary

  • reciprocal demands — Demands between two persons, one against the other arid the other against the one, as in mutual accounts. 1 Am J2d Acctg § 5. See mutuality of parties and demands …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • Hedging demands — Demands for securities to hedge particular sources of consumption risk, beyond the usual mean variance diversification motivation. The New York Times Financial Glossary …   Financial and business terms

  • hedging demands — Demands for securities to hedge particular sources of consumption risk, beyond the usual mean variance diversification motivation. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary …   Financial and business terms

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