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claim definition

claim (klām)

transitive verb

  1. to demand or ask for as rightfully belonging or due to one; assert one's right to (a title, accomplishment, etc. that should be recognized) to claim a record in the high jump
  2. to call for; require; deserve a problem that claims attention
  3. ☆ to state as a fact or as one's belief (something that may be called into question); assert

Etymology: ME claimen < OFr claimer, to call, claim < L clamare, to cry out: see clamor

noun

  1. a demand for something rightfully or allegedly due
  2. a right or title to something her sole claim to fame
  3. something claimed, as
    1. a piece of land staked out by a settler or miner
    2. money demanded for an insurance settlement
  4. ☆ a statement, as a fact, of something that may be called into question; assertion

Related Forms:

claim Idioms

lay claim to

to assert one's right or title to

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claim Synonyms

claim

n.

demand, declaration, pretense, requisition, profession, entreaty, petition, suit, ultimatum, call, request, requirement, application, postulation, protestation, case, pretension, assertion, allegation, plea, counterclaim, right, interest, title, part, stake; see also appeal 1, contention 2.

Antonyms disclaimer, renunciation*, repudiation.

lay claim to

demand, stake out a claim to, appropriate; see claim 1, require 2, seize 2.


claim

v.

  1. To assert a claim to

    demand, lay claim to, stake out a claim, exact, challenge, claim as one's due, demand as a right, command, insist upon, pretend to, assert one's right to, make a stand, call upon one for, petition, ask for, call for, require, deserve, have dibs on*; see also require 2.

    Antonyms disclaim, renounce, abandon.

  2. To assert

    insist, maintain, allege, profess; see declare 1, pretend 1. See syn. study at require.


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claim Usage Examples

Object

  • compensation: If you have been injured as a result of someone else's negligence then you are legally entitled to claim personal injury compensation.

Converse of object

  • lay: Moral obligation and evaluation A territory to which even most scientists do not usually lay claim is that of obligation.

Adjective modifier

  • fraudulent: Working for this leading loss adjuster you will based within a specialist team handling potentially fraudulent claims.

Adjective complement

  • 28p: We are able to claim back 28p for each gift aided £ 1 donated by basic rate taxpayers.

Noun used with modifier

  • compensation: We can provide free and without obligation legal advice, and explain what making an accident compensation claim could mean for you.

Preposition: for

  • compensation: We shall continue to pursue claims for adequate compensation from the Council.
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En perseguirme, Mundo, Que¤   interesas? En que¤   te ofendo, cuando so¤  lo intento poner bellezas en mi entendimiento y no mi entendimiento en las bellezas? World, in hounding me, what do you gain? How can it harm you if I choose, astutely, rather to stock my mind with things of beauty, than waste its stock on every beauty's claim?

-Cruz, SorJuana Ine¤  s de la

Maxima debetur puero reverentia, si quid turpe paras. If you are planning any misdeed, never forget that a child has a first claim on your respect.

-Juvenal full name Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis

For what is passes so swiftly and irrevocably into what was, no human claim can be of the least significance.

-Myles na Gopaleen

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