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

This imbalance between supply and demand, with sellers outnumbering buyers by more than 500,000, has helped shift many markets in favor of the latter. —Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025

This would create a chokepoint in supply and demand wherein a lot of the highly talented folks who otherwise could have worked on H-1B would no longer be able to and would head to other countries for opportunities, or return to their home countries. —Jim Edwards, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025

Like most goods, cotton pricing is closely tied to supply and demand. —Sarah Jones, Sourcing Journal, 30 Sep. 2025

The price variations, Norton said, come down to supply and demand. —Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2025

Rhymes for supply and demand

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