Definitions for claim

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claim claim

Spelling: [kleym]

IPA: /kleɪm/

Claim is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in claim (acilm).

Definitions for claim

noun

1. a demand for something as due; an assertion of a right or an alleged right:
2. an assertion of something as a fact:
3. a right to claim or demand; a just title to something:
4. something that is claimed, especially a piece of public land for which formal request is made for mining or other purposes.
5. a request or demand for payment in accordance with an insurance policy, a workers' compensation law, etc.:

Idioms

1. lay claim to, to declare oneself entitled to:

verb (used with object)

1. to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due:
2. to assert and demand the recognition of (a right, title, possession, etc.); assert one's right to:
3. to assert or maintain as a fact:
4. to require as due or fitting:

verb (used without object)

1. to make or file a claim:

Origin of claim

1250-1300; (v.) Middle English claimen Anglo-French, Old French claimer Latin clāmāre to cry out; (noun) Middle English Anglo-French, Old French cla(i)me, noun derivative of the v.

Examples for claim

They were called La Red Avispa (The Wasp Network) and claim to have successfully foiled a number of threats against the island.

From evil—physical, moral, and political—it is not our claim to be exempt.

The claim is one of a series of allegations made in a controversial documentary that the BBC has now pulled.

How the hell does somebody show up at a David Duke organized event in 2002 and claim ignorance?

I claim it as the price of coming, you know, when I was only an afterthought.

Accept them for a dowry; and allow me to claim one privilege in return.

The FBI and the President may claim that the Hermit Kingdom is to blame for the most high-profile network breach in forever.

A few carried signs: "IMAGINE JUSTICE," "BLACK LIVES MATTER," "claim HUMANITY."

It is not necessary to claim that it has always worked perfectly.

Many volumes of poetry put in their claim to immortality every year.