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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | demand |
| Synonyms: | call, charge, claim, contribution, extortion, fee, levy, payment, request, requirement, requisition, toll |
| Main Entry: | command |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | directive, instruction |
| Synonyms: | act, adjuration, ban, behest, bidding, call, canon, caveat, charge, citation, commandment, decree, demand, devoir, dictate, dictation, dictum, direction, duty, edict, enactment, exaction, fiat, imperative, imposition, injunction, interdiction, law, mandate, notification, obligation, order, ordinance, precept, prescript, proclamation, prohibition, proscription, regulation, request, requirement, requisition, responsibility, rule, subpoena, summons, ultimatum, warrant, will, word, writ |
| Notes: | an order is being told to do something with no specific guidelines, a command is being told to do something in a specific way, and a directive is being told to do something and getting this information through channels |
| Antonyms: | contradiction, countermand, opposition, recall, reversal, revocation |
| Main Entry: | demand |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | question, request |
| Synonyms: | appeal, application, arrogation, bid, bidding, call, call for, charge, claim, clamor, command, counterclaim, entreatment, entreaty, exaction, impetration, imploration, importunity, imposition, inquiry, insistence, interest, interrogation, lien, necessity, need, occasion, order, petition, plea, prayer, pursuit, requirement, requisition, rush, sale, search, solicitation, stipulation, suit, supplication, trade, ultimatum, use, vogue, want |
| Antonyms: | grant, offer, reply |
| Main Entry: | enforcement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | requirement to obey; implementation of rule(s) |
| Synonyms: | administration, application, carrying out, coercion, compulsion, compulsory law, constraint, duress, enforcing, exaction, execution, fulfilling, imposition, impulsion, insistence, lash, martial law, necessitation, obligation, prescription, pressure, prosecution, reinforcement, spur, whip |
| Antonyms: | abandon, disregard, forgetfulness, neglect, renunciation, slight |
| Main Entry: | extortion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blackmail; cheating |
| Synonyms: | arm, badger, bite, coercion, compulsion, demand, exaction, force, fraud, oppression, payoff, payola, pressure, protection, racket, rapacity, shake, shakedown, squeeze, stealing, swindle, theft |
| Main Entry: | force |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical energy, power |
| Synonyms: | arm, brunt, clout, coercion, compulsion, conscription, constrait, draft, duress, dynamism, effort, enforcement, exaction, extortion, full head of steam, fury, horsepower, impact, impetus, impulse, might, momentum, muscle, pains, potency, potential, pow, pressure, punch, push, sinew, sock, speed, steam, stimulus, strain, strength, stress, strong arm, stuff*, subjection, tension, trouble, velocity, vigor, violence, what it takes |
| Antonyms: | powerlessness, weakness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | levy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assessment, tax |
| Synonyms: | burden, collection, custom, duty, exaction, excise, fee, gathering, imposition, impost, muster, tariff, toll |
| Notes: | a levee is a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea, while a levy is a charge or tax imposed and collected |
| Main Entry: | necessity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | need, essentiality |
| Synonyms: | call, cause, claim, compulsion, demand, desideratum, duress, essence, essential, exaction, exigency, fundamental, godsend, imperative, indispensability, inevitability, inexorableness, life or death, must, necessary, needfulness, no alternative, no choice, obligation, pinch, precondition, prerequisite, privation, requirement, requisite, sine qua non, stress, undeniability, urgency, vital part, vitals, want |
| Antonyms: | desire, want |
| Main Entry: | price |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | financial value |
| Synonyms: | amount, appraisal, appraisement, asking price, assessment, barter, bill, bounty, ceiling, charge, compensation, consideration, cost, damage, demand, disbursement, discount, dues, estimate, exaction, expenditure, expense, face value, fare, fee, figure, hire, outlay, output, pay, payment, premium, prize, quotation, ransom, rate, reckoning, retail, return, reward, score, sticker, tab, tariff, ticket, toll, tune*, valuation, wages, wholesale, worth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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