1. Unclassified
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. Unclassified
To proclaim.
3. Unclassified
To call or name.
4. Unclassified
To assert; to maintain.
5. Verb
To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
6. Noun
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. Noun
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. Noun
The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; as a settler's claim; a miner's claim.
9. Noun
A loud call.
10. Noun
an assertion that something is true or factual; "his claim that he was innocent"; "evidence contradicted the government's claims"
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary
11. Verb
lay claim to; as of an idea; "She took credit for the whole idea"
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary
12. Noun
an informal right to something; "his claim on her attentions"; "his title to fame"
Vocabulary classified under Law
13. Noun
an established or recognized right; "a strong legal claim to the property"; "he had no documents confirming his title to his father's estate"; "he staked his claim"
Vocabulary classified under Law
14. Noun
demand for something as rightful or due; "they struck in support of their claim for a shorter work day"
Vocabulary classified under Economics
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