supply and demand

noun

: the amount of goods and services that are available for people to buy compared to the amount of goods and services that people want to buy

If less of a product than the public wants is produced, the law of supply and demand says that more can be charged for the product.

Examples of supply and demand in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Even so, that won’t be true for everybody and tension in the system will only grow as both supply and demand get disrupted at the same time. —Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 4 Apr. 2025

Right at the heart of this is a genuine embrace of the price system, an economic view that sees prices as a quantitative indicator of supply and demand. —Roger Valdez, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025

And the long-ago established economic law of supply and demand means that taking millions of cars out of the supply will drive up prices. —Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2025

The sub-index for production edged higher to 52.6 for March while that of new orders climbed to 51.8, pointing to improvement in manufacturing supply and demand. —Anniek Bao, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2025

Rhymes for supply and demand

• ampersand
• beforehand
• behindhand
• bottomland
• contraband
• countermand
• dixieland
• fairyland
• fatherland
• firebrand
• hinterland
• motherland