Sekirov Dictionary

claim

/kleɪm/

noun 6
verb 9
forms 6
phrases 4

noun6

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a statement of what someone believes is true, often made without proof
- The company's share price dropped amid claims of accounting fraud.
A legal demand for compensation or damages.
A demand of ownership made for something.
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A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
- Miners had to stake their claims during the gold rush.
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The right or ground of demanding.
- You don't have any claim on my time, since I'm no longer your employee.
The thing claimed.

verb9

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.
To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
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To cause the loss of.
- The attacks claimed the lives of five people.
- A fire claimed two homes.
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To win as a prize in a sport or competition.
- He claimed $100 after winning the top spot.
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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, upon what ground any one has empire — 1689
(no longer used) To proclaim.
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(no longer used) To call or name.
- Nor all, that else through all the world is named[…] / Might like to this be clamed. — 1596

forms

claimed · claimedst · claiming · claimeth · claims · claimest

Phrases with claim

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