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Definition of Claim

Claim To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due. To proclaim. To call or name. To assert; to maintain. To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim. 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. 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. 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. A loud call. Related Definitions: Also, An, Another, Any, Anything, As, Ask, Assert, Assertion, Authority, Be, By, Call, Calling, Challenge, Claim, Claimant, Claimed, Concede, Confer, Debt, Deduce, Demand, Demanded, Due, Entitled, Establish, Fact, For, Give, Have, In, Land, Loud, Maintain, Miner, Name, Obtain, Of, On, One, Or, Other, Possession, Privilege, Proclaim, Right, Seek, Settler, Should, Something, Supposed, That, The, Thing, Title, To, Virtue, Which

Claim Quotations The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. Ayn Rand There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded. Mark Twain If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements. Mason Cooley I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. Mohandas Gandhi Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. Aristotle

Claim Translations claim in Dutch is aanspraak maken op, claimen claim in German is Anspruch {m} claim in Italian is pretendere, affermazione, esigenza, affermare claim in Latin is adsumo (assumo), assero, vindico (vindicatum) claim in Norwegian is fordre, kreve claim in Spanish is afirmacion, pretension, postulado, derecho, opinar

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