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

Elton said fans might notice small changes in pricing, but there are factors other than Live Nation that are contributing to high ticket prices, such as the secondary ticket market as well as supply and demand challenges. —Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026

But John Kwoka, a Northeastern University economics professor who specializes in antitrust, thinks that supply and demand aren’t enough to explain what’s happening. —Steve Knopper, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2026

Seventy-three million baby boomers are flooding into their seventies as patients while simultaneously retiring from the nursing workforce, squeezing supply and demand from both directions at once. —Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2026

Speaking of mushrooms, white truffles are running about $2,600 a pound this year, roughly double black truffles, purely a matter of supply and demand. —Judy Bart Kancigor, Oc Register, 9 Apr. 2026

Rhymes for supply and demand

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