Meaning of 'claim'

noun

demand for something as rightful or due

Example: "they struck in support of their claim for a shorter work day"

noun

an informal right to something

Example: "You have no claim on my time."

Synonyms: title

noun

an established or recognized right

Example: "a strong legal claim to the property"

Synonyms: title

noun

an assertion of a right, for example money or property

Example: "Our insurance claim keeps being rejected. "

noun

an assertion that something is true or factual

Example: "They claim to be innocent."

noun

a demand especially in the phrase 'the call of duty'

Synonyms: call

verb

to take, as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs

Example: "The accident claimed three lives."

Synonyms: take

verb

to assert or affirm strongly

verb

to lay claim to

Synonyms: take

verb

to ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example

Example: "They claimed on the maximum allowable amount"

verb

to demand as being one's due or property

Synonyms: arrogate lay claim