Usually means: Firmly stood by a demand.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word insisted:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. insisted: Merriam-Webster
  2. insisted: Collins English Dictionary
  3. insisted: Vocabulary.com
  4. Insisted, insisted: Wordnik
  5. insisted: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. insisted: Wiktionary
  7. Insisted, insisted: Dictionary.com
  8. insisted: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Insisted: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Insisted: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. insisted: FreeDictionary.org
  12. insisted: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. insisted: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insisted: Legal dictionary

(Note: See insist as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (insist)

verb:  (with (that + indicative) or intransitive, with on or upon) To hold up a claim emphatically.
verb:  (sometimes with (that + subjunctive) or intransitive, with on or upon) To demand continually that something happen or be done; to reiterate a demand despite requests to abandon it.
verb:  (obsolete, chiefly geometry) To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).
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