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Meaning of 'claim' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Claim [ n.]
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A loud call.
2 . Claim [ v. i.]
- To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
3 . Claim [ v./.]
- To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
- To proclaim.
- To call or name.
- To assert; to maintain.

Meaning of 'claim' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . claim [ n]
Meaning (1):
- an established or recognized right
Example in sentence:
  • a strong legal claim to the property;
  • he had no documents confirming his title to his father's estate;
  • he staked his claim
Meaning (2):
- an assertion that something is true or factual
Example in sentence:
  • evidence contradicted the government's claims;
  • his claim that he was innocent
Meaning (3):
- an assertion of a right (as to money or property)
Example in sentence:
  • his claim asked for damages
Meaning (4):
- an informal right to something
Example in sentence:
  • his claim on her attentions;
  • his title to fame
Meaning (5):
- a demand especially in the phrase
Example in sentence:
  • the call of duty
Meaning (6):
- demand for something as rightful or due
Example in sentence:
  • they struck in support of their claim for a shorter work day
7 . claim [ v]
Meaning (7):
- demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to
Example in sentence:
  • He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter;
  • Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident
Meaning (8):
- assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing
Example in sentence:
  • He claimed that he killed the burglar
Meaning (9):
- lay claim to; as of an idea
Example in sentence:
  • She took credit for the whole idea
Meaning (10):
- take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
Example in sentence:
  • the accident claimed three lives;
  • The hard work took its toll on her
Meaning (11):
- ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example
Example in sentence:
  • They claimed on the maximum allowable amount

Nearby Words:

clabber clachan clack clacked clacker clacking clad cladocera cladophyll claggy

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