ECONOMICS,MARKETINGdemandfor aproductorservicethat aconsumercannotsatisfybecause they do not have enoughmoney, because theproductorserviceis notavailable, or because they do notknowthat it isavailable:Newfacilitieswerebuiltjust because thefundswere there,ratherthan tofulfilanylatentdemand.Alatentdemandforsmartphonessawsalesclimbas therecessioneased.(Definition oflatent demandfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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latent demandTherefore,latentdemandis nothing but the gap between desirability and availability.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Reader expectations operate as both a constraint on the writer and alatentdemandfor innovation.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The market logic involves developing the demand side with the aim of transforminglatentdemandinto effective demand.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Capacity can be increased in a number of ways, but needs to take account oflatentdemandotherwise it may be used more strongly than anticipated.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The additional demand for that good that is manifest as the price drops is ter medlatentdemand.From theCambridge English CorpusThe increase from 2001-02 to 2002-03 is striking and might tell us something aboutlatentdemand.From theCambridge English CorpusA projection corresponding to alatentdemandis like a pilot with sealed orders.From theCambridge English CorpusEach equivalence corresponds to alatentdemandwhich, if any value in an equivalence class ever becomes unacceptable, then all the values in the same class become unacceptable also.From theCambridge English CorpusThat shows that there is alatentdemandin the work force for education and training, and we hope to build on that.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0In other words, the new technological advance of the railways released and gave rein to thelatentdemandfor travel and trade.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/latent-demand##
