claim implies a demand for the delivery or concession of something due as one's own or one's right.
CLAIM definition: 1. to say that something is true or is a fact, although you cannot prove it and other people might…. Learn more.
a request or demand for payment in accordance with an insurance policy, a workers' compensation law, etc.: We filed a claim for compensation from the company. Idioms lay claim to, to declare oneself entitled to: I have never laid claim to being an expert in tax laws.
- to demand as being due or as one's property; assert one's title or right to: he claimed the record. 2. (takes a clause as object or an infinitive) to assert as a fact; maintain against denial: he claimed to be telling the truth. 3. to call for or need; deserve: this problem claims our attention. 4. to take: the accident claimed four lives.
Verb claim (third-person singular simple present claims, present participle claiming, simple past and past participle claimed) To demand ownership of.
CLAIM definition: to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due. See examples of claim used in a sentence.
If you have a claim on someone or their attention, you have the right to demand things from them or to demand their attention.
Definition of claim verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A claim is when you express your right to something that belongs to you, like your medical records or the deed to your home. When you make a claim or claim something, you're demanding it or saying it’s true.
To lay claim to (something) is to say that it belongs to you or that you have a right to it. She laid claim to the ring. Call when your plane gets in and I'll meet you at (the) baggage claim. His claim to fame is the invention of the stapler. The restaurant's claim to fame is its barbecue sauce.