Definition of "claim"

claim

/kleɪm/

noun
plural claims
1. A demand of ownership made for something.
2. The thing claimed.
3. The right or ground of demanding.
4. A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided.
  Quotations
  The thing is, we've even had formal confirmation from Government itself that the crucial research required to make such sweeping claims hasn't been done!
  2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3
5. A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
6. (law) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
verb
third-person singular simple present claims, present participle claiming, simple past and past participle claimed
1. To demand ownership of.
  Quotations
  Jeffrey Chuang, an economics student at University College London, said: "I am for independence. I do not think China has any right to claim Taiwan. We have confidence in our country and we know that China is not capable of doing anything to us."
  1996 March 15, Leyla Linton, “London students sing their defiance”, in The Times‎, number 65,528, Overseas News, page 14, columns 1, 2
2. To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
3. To demand ownership or right to use for land.
4. (law) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
5. (intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
  Quotations
  We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority, upon what ground any one has empire
  1689 December (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 1, in Two Treatises of Government: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […]
6. To cause the loss of.
7. To win as a prize in a sport or competition.
8. (obsolete) To proclaim.
9. (archaic) To call or name.
  Quotations
  Nor all, that else through all the world is named […] / Might like to this be clamed.
  1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie

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