The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word DEMAND
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result DEMAND
- Insistence of daughters to welcome celebrity rebuffed
- Made man disobey restraining order
- Daughter called back to make claim
- 29 Dictate a request
- Ignore flash modem and call
- … urge of French guy beginning to decline?
- Embraced by blonde, man denies urge
- Require partner for supply?
- Called over by head of department to get order
- Type of market using borders of material in transaction
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The straight part
We know that "Insistence" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case insistence = demand.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does DEMAND mean?
DEMAND noun- The desire to purchase goods and services.
- The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
- A forceful claim for something.
- A requirement.
- An urgent request.
- An order.
- (electricity supply) More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval.
- To request forcefully.
- To claim a right to something.
- To ask forcefully for information.
- To require of someone.
- To issue a summons to court.