claimancy

plural claimancies

1. The state or quality of being a claimant.
2. governmentA branch of the navy responsible for maintaining infrastructure, usually corresponding roughly to a command grouping.

   He has effective authority to move his billets around within his claimancy as necessary to meet needs.

   1975, Navy Supply Corps Newsletter, page 6

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   One the most important roles of the claimancy is the management of the financial resources provided to the activities for operations and maintenance.

   1992, Naval School, Civil Engineer Corps Officers, Guide to public work management, page 2-15

   Within the NAVSUP claimancy (which is entirely within the Navy's infrastructure) almost two- thirds of our staffing and workload is directly linked to force size.

   1994, Newsletter - Volume 57, page 3

   Since, for example, IT funding issues are not limited to the Pacific Fleet claimancy (CPF) but affect the navy as a whole, not only are CPF activities free to comment, but other claimancies also are free to comment on the issue.

   2008, Lawrence R. Jones, Jerry L. McCaffery, Budgeting, Financial Management, and Acquisition Reform in the U.S. Department of Defense, →ISBN, page 179