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claim

English

🔊 demand for something as rightful or due
“they struck in support of their claim for a shorter work day”
🔊 an informal right to something
“his claim on her attentions”
🔊 an assertion of a right (as to money or property)
“his claim asked for damages”
🔊 an assertion that something is true or factual
“his claim that he was innocent”
🔊 an established or recognized right
“a strong legal claim to the property”
🔊 a demand especially in the phrase "the call of duty"
🔊 take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
“the accident claimed three lives”
🔊 assert or affirm strongly
“He claimed that he killed the burglar”
🔊 lay claim to
“She took credit for the whole idea”
🔊 ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example
“They claimed on the maximum allowable amount”
🔊 demand as being one's due or property
“He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter”