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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