meaning of claim
1. To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
2. To proclaim.
3. To call or name.
4. To assert; to maintain.
5. To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
6. A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.
7. A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant.
8. The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; as a settlers claim; a miners claim.
9. A loud call.
10. demand for something as rightful or due; "they struck in support of their claim for a shorter work
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Related Words
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