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

The point is that no one person knows the ‘correct’ price of anything, that is, the price which will enable supply and demand to balance. —Michael Lynch, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025

The gap between global supply and demand expanded from 60,000 barrels per day a year ago to almost 1.3 million barrels by mid-2025, according to the DOE, which is at least glut adjacent. —Jordan Blum, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2025

Sellers can create an intimate profile of each consumer, and use it to assess that consumer’s unique willingness, and ability, to pay more than the price that the traditional supply and demand curves would yield. —George Slover, Time, 6 Aug. 2025

That means that most of the neodymium, dysprosium, and terbium that end up in EV motors, drones, wind turbines and even smartphones ... well, depending on supply and demand or even geopolitical landscape, China basically makes the rules. —Joe Salas july 19, New Atlas, 19 July 2025

Rhymes for supply and demand

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