Word Meaning

claim definition and meaning

v./. To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
v./. To proclaim.
v./. To call or name.
v./. To assert; to maintain.
v. i. To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
n. 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.
n. 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.
n. 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.
n. A loud call.

Crossword clues for claim

- Allege
- Assert
- Assert as the truth
- Demand as a right
- Legal entitlement to land insurance case
- Maintain
- Miner's stake
- Miner’s stake
- Payment from insurance policy
- pretense
- Reserve land, stake a ...
- Take for oneself
- Try to own