claimable

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adjective

Able to be claimed.

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Meanings

adjectiveclaimable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableAble to be claimed.

    1845 The New Statistical Account of Scotland The existence of a legally claimable provision will, it is to be feared, tend everywhere more or less to produce its usual pernicious effects on the natural benevolence and moral independence of the people.

    1 more example

    If the insured party undertakes repair work himself or does it by independent sources this is not claimable from the insurance company.

    2005 United Arab Emirates Court of Cassation Judgments 1998 - 2003
nounclaimable (plural claimables)

plural claimables

  1. Something that can be claimed.

    But it does not follow that there were no true claimables.

    2009, Hent de Vries, Religion: Beyond a Concept, →ISBN, page 48
    2 more examples

    The A.D.A. figures utilized in this study include the claimables for state aid plus the nonclaimables.

    1963, Leo Cohen, Comparative Fiscal Capacity and Tax Effort of Units of Government in Madison and St. Claire Counties, Illinois, 1950-1960

    So, for example, if the conditional and negation introduced in terms of pragmatic incompatibility really are a conditional and negation — letting us say that two claimables are inferentially related as premise and conclusion, or that they are incompatible — then what those locutions work on must be genuine propositional contents — what appears embedded as the antecedent of the conditional, or is negated.

    2008, Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer, The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit, →ISBN, page 221

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*kelh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*kl̥h₁m-
  3. Proto-Italic*klām-
  4. Latinclamāre
  5. Old Frenchclamer
  6. Middle Englishclaimen
  7. Englishclaim
  8. Englishclaimable

From claim + -able.

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APA

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Chicago

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