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A demand of ownership made for something.
- a claim of ownership
- a claim of victory
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The thing claimed.
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The right or ground of demanding.
- You don't have any claim on my time, since I'm no longer your employee.
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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.
- The company's share price dropped amid claims of accounting fraud.
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A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
- Miners had to stake their claims during the gold rush.
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A legal demand for compensation or damages.
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To demand ownership of.
- 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 t
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To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
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To demand ownership or right to use for land.
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To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
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To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.intransitive
- We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority, upon what ground any one has empire
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To cause the loss of.
- The attacks claimed the lives of five people.
- A fire claimed two homes.
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To win as a prize in a sport or competition.
- He claimed $100 after winning the top spot.
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To proclaim.obsolete
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To call or name.archaic
- Nor all, that else through all the world is named[…] / Might like to this be clamed.