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.

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The limited number of Cowboy Carter Tour stops certainly isn't helping with the supply and demand issue. —

Paige Hopkins, Axios, 14 Feb. 2025 At its core, our economy runs on supply and demand. —

Dj Gribbin, New York Daily News, 7 Feb. 2025 But Russia was still in total control of the functioning of the grid, balancing supply and demand, and maintaining the frequency, said Susanne Nies, project lead at the German energy research institute Helmholtz-Zentrum. —

Clare Sebastian, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025 This allows energy suppliers to balance supply and demand more efficiently, boost production and reduce reliance on monolithic power plants. —

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