claim

plural claims · alternative claym

1. A demand of ownership made for something.

   a claim of victory

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   a claim of ownership

2. The thing claimed.
3. The right or ground of demanding.

   You don't have any claim on my time, since I'm no longer your employee.

4. 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.

   The company's share price dropped amid claims of accounting fraud.

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   Bailey, in using accents, felt that he was 'directing to their proper pronuntiation' and showing 'the Orthoepia of the English Tongue' (title page, Dictionarium Britannicum, 1730 edition). The claim is ridiculous.

   1946, Esther K. Sheldon, “Pronouncing Systems in Eighteenth-Century Dictionaries”, in Language, volume 22, number 1, Linguistic Society of America, →DOI, page 28

   The thing is, we've even had formal confirmation from Government itself that the crucial research required to make such sweeping claims hasn't been done!

   2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3

5. A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.

   Miners had to stake their claims during the gold rush.

6. lawA legal demand for compensation or damages.

present singular third person claims · participle present claiming · participle past claimed · past claimed · first person past singular claimed · archaic present second person singular claimest · past second person singular claimed · archaic past second person singular claimedst · present singular third person claims · archaic present singular third person claimeth · past singular third person claimed · past plural claimed · past subjunctive claimed · participle present claiming · participle past claimed · alternative claym

1. To demand ownership of.

   Jeffrey Chuang, an economics student at University College London, said: "I am for independence. I do not think China has any right to claim Taiwan. We have confidence in our country and we know that China is not capable of doing anything to us."

   1996 March 15, Leyla Linton, “London students sing their defiance”, in The Times, number 65,528, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 14, columns 1, 2

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

   Synonyms: allege

3. To demand ownership or right to use for land.
4. lawTo demand compensation or damages through the courts.
5. intransitiveTo 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 December (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 1, in Two Treatises of Government: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], →OCLC

6. To cause the loss of.

   A fire claimed two homes.

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   The attacks claimed the lives of five people.

7. To win as a prize in a sport or competition.

   He claimed $100 after winning the top spot.

8. obsoleteTo proclaim.
9. archaicTo call or name.

   Nor all, that else through all the world is named[…] / Might like to this be clamed.

   1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC