CLAIM
\klˈe͡ɪm], \klˈeɪm], \k_l_ˈeɪ_m]\
Definitions of CLAIM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
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an assertion of a right (as to money or property); "his claim asked for damages"
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an assertion that something is true or factual; "his claim that he was innocent"; "evidence contradicted the government's claims"
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a demand especially in the phrase "the call of duty"
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ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example; "They claimed on the maximum allowable amount"
By Princeton University
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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"
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an assertion of a right (as to money or property); "his claim asked for damages"
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an assertion that something is true or factual; "his claim that he was innocent"; "evidence contradicted the government's claims"
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assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing; "He claimed that he killed the burglar"; "The guru claimed many followers"
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a demand especially in the phrase "the call of duty"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
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To proclaim.
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To assert; to maintain.
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To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
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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.
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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.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
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To proclaim.
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To assert; to maintain.
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To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
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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.
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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.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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To demand as a right, or by authority; to assert to be true.
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To be entitled to anything; to make a claim or assertion.
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A demand of a right; the asserting of a fact; the assertion of a right or title to anything; also, the thing demanded; especially, a piece of land which a miner marks out in accordance with mining law.
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Claimable.
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Claimer.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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In life insurance, the amount of a policy matured and payable, either at the end of an endowment period or at the death of the insured.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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To call for: to demand as a right.
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A demand for something supposed due: right or ground for demanding: the thing claimed.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To lay claim to; make a claim; maintain.
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The demand of something as a right; assertion of a right; a right or title.
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The asserting, as of a fact.
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Anything claimed, as a settler's tract.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A demand of a right or supposed right; a right to claim; the thing claimed; a piece of land which a settler in a colony claims a right to purchase when it is put up for sale.
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To demand as a right or as due.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To seek or demand as a right; to demand as due; to assert; to have a right or title to.
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A demand as of right; a right or title to anything; the thing claimed.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.