to meet demand
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3.4
- phrasal verb
:
satisfacer la demanda
- The factory increased its output to meet demand for the new product line.
They're going to change flight supply to meet demand, not lower prices.
- They're going to change flight supply to meet demand, not lower prices.
- But overall, the supply has never been able to meet demand really since the housing crash.
- The, the, the supply needs to meet the demand.
- You know, record, record profit, record sales can't meet demand.
- So not a surprise is what we're saying, to hear that the supply is still not meeting demand.
- They can supply the money or the credit to meet demand, especially in, you know, recession type environments.
- They're showing that it ain't that they they are going to get to a point that they cannot produce enough power to meet the demand.
- And it's really hard for engineering minded people but to accept change and try to have the change well synchronized to meet supply and demand.
- And it may be that this is related to supply side, not necessarily shortages, but inability to meet the current demand for the Ampere GPU's.
Examples
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These banks are forced to sell their bonds at a huge loss in order to meet customer demands to get their money back.
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As general practice struggles to meet unprecedented levels of demand, practice nurses are increasingly involved in triage.
Academic text (2015) -
But overall, the supply has never been able to meet demand really since the housing crash.
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Increase inventory to meet the demand out of production.
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We have to meet the demand for the Real Madrid kit.
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It's getting more and more difficult to increase yields to meet the food demands and the fuel demands of the future.
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Governments have adopted four broad strategies to meet the new demands made on their economic diplomacy.
Academic text (2008) -
New supply-side capacity isn't the only way to meet future energy demands.
Academic text (2011) -
Attracting and retaining minority students to STEM fields is essential to meeting workforce demands.
Academic text (2015) -
American farmers expanded production to meet this demand by moving on to marginal farmland and buying machinery like tractors, plows, and threshers.
Synonyms
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2.8
To do what is required or promised
243
2.8
Meet a rule or requirement
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3.5
To be enough to meet a need or purpose
How Supplied
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5.3
28
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to supply enough to satisfy customers' needs' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'meet' (to fulfil or satisfy) with 'demand' (a requirement). This verb + noun compositional pattern is common across languages and follows normal English semantics, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Meet demand creates a picture of sellers facing a group of buyers who want a product and meet them by bringing enough goods to satisfy that demand. That's why it means 'to supply enough of something to satisfy customers'.