CLAIM

claim

(noun) demand for something as rightful or due; “they struck in support of their claim for a shorter work day”

claim, title

(noun) an informal right to something; “his claim on her attentions”; “his title to fame”

title, claim

(noun) an established or recognized right; “a strong legal claim to the property”; “he had no documents confirming his title to his father’s estate”; “he staked his claim”

claim

(noun) an assertion of a right (as to money or property); “his claim asked for damages”

claim

(noun) an assertion that something is true or factual; “his claim that he was innocent”; “evidence contradicted the government’s claims”

call, claim

(noun) a demand especially in the phrase “the call of duty”

claim, take, exact

(verb) take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs; “the accident claimed three lives”; “The hard work took its toll on her”

claim

(verb) assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing; “He claimed that he killed the burglar”

claim, take

(verb) lay claim to; as of an idea; “She took credit for the whole idea”

claim

(verb) ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example; “They claimed on the maximum allowable amount”

claim, lay claim, arrogate

(verb) demand as being one’s due or property; assert one’s right or title to; “He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter”; “Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

claim (plural claims)

A demand of ownership made for something.

The thing claimed.

The right or ground of demanding.

A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided.

A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.

(legal) A legal demand for compensation or damages.

Usage notes

• Demand ownership of land not previously owned. One usually stakes a claim.

• The legal sense. One usually makes a claim. See Collocations of do, have, make, and take

Verb

claim (third-person singular simple present claims, present participle claiming, simple past and past participle claimed)

To demand ownership of.

To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.

To demand ownership or right to use for land.

(legal) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.

(intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.

To cause the loss of, usually by violent means.

(archaic) To proclaim.

(archaic) To call or name.

Anagrams

• malic

Source: Wiktionary

Claim (klam), v. [imp. & p. p. Claimed (klamd); p. pr. & vb. n. Claiming.] Etym: [OE. clamen, claimen, OF. clamer, fr. L. clamare to cry out, call; akin to calare to proclaim, Gr. kal to sound, G. holen to fetch, E. hale haul.]

1. To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

2. To proclaim. [Obs.] Spenser.

3. To call or name. [Obs.] Spenser.

4. To assert; to maintain. [Colloq.]

Claim, v. i.

Definition: To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim. We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority. Locke.

Claim, n. Etym: [Of. claim cry, complaint, from clamer. See Claim, v.t.]

1. A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.

2. A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant. "A bar to all claims upon land." Hallam.

3. The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; as a settler's claim; a miner's claim. [U.S. & Australia]

4. A laoud call. [Obs.] Spenser To lay claim to, to demand as a right. "Doth he lay claim to thine inheritance" Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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