claimant Definition
claim·ant (klām′ənt)
noun
a person who makes a claim
claimant Synonyms
claimant Law Definition
n
An individual or entity who
asserts a right or demand to money or property.
claimant Usage Examples
Possessives
solicitor: On 7th April the claimant's solicitors faxed to them copies of the documents they had filed with the court six weeks earlier.
Converse of object
- compensate: The Defendant: The defendant's task is to compensate the claimant for his losses.
- dismiss: I dismiss the claimant 's application for declaratory relief declaring that the Adjudicator's decision was null and void.
- entitle: This entitles the claimant to apply for a warrant to have the defendant evicted.
- advise: CPAG advises all claimants to inform the Inland Revenue of any changes as soon as they happen to avoid any complications.
- rely: The claimants relied on the words " and of all his other enabling powers " .
- injure: One of the D3 fitters negligently injured the claimant.
Adjective modifier
- unemployed: Unemployed claimants leaving benefits explained most of the decline in all areas.
- fraudulent: Be personal liability fraudulent claimant had same social constructs.
- injured: All too often, it is easier to settle the motor claim than agree treatment costs for the injured claimant.
- psychic: If a psychic claimant really could predict winners by using psi this would be of great interest to psychical research.
- failed: Since 1997 only about 60,000 of 330,000 failed asylum claimants have left the country.
- genuine: Genuine claimants would have an opportunity to register first.
Modifies a noun
- count: The claimant count jobless rate, for example, remains at just 2.9 % .
- unemployment: Compared with a year earlier, claimant count unemployment was down 11,000.
- solicitor: Access to medical facts Timing certainly seems to play an important part in claimant solicitor 's willingness to pursue mediation.
Noun used with modifier
- incapacity: The Northern Way Business Plan for instance sets aside £ 12 million for programs focused on getting incapacity benefit claimants back into work.
- asylum: On average, the European Union received 1 asylum claimant per 1,000 inhabitants during 2002 ( 3 ).
- cargo: The cargo claimants also filed a claim against Murmansk.
- benefit: Normally this is the benefit claimant or the person to whom the benefit is paid.
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