When you express your right to something, you're making a claim to it, like telling your sister, "This bowl of cereal is mine."
To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
Noun
demand for something as rightful or due; "they struck in support of their claim for a shorter work day"
Noun
an informal right to something; "his claim on her attentions"; "his title to fame"
Noun
an established or recognized right; "a strong legal claim to the property"; "he had no documents confirming his title to his father''s estate"; "he staked his claim"
Noun
an assertion of a right (as to money or property); "his claim asked for damages"
Noun
an assertion that something is true or factual; "his claim that he was innocent"; "evidence contradicted the government''s claims"
Noun
a demand especially in the phrase "the call of duty"
Verb
take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her"
Verb
assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing; "He claimed that he killed the burglar"
Verb
lay claim to; as of an idea; "She took credit for the whole idea"
Verb
ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example; "They claimed on the maximum allowable amount"
Verb
demand as being one''s due or property; assert one''s right or title to; "He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter"; "Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident"
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.
Claim
Claim
We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority.
Claim
To lay claim to, to demand as a right. "Doth he lay claim to thine inheritance?"
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 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.
Usage Examples
Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.
I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.
But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?
Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.
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Other Usage ExamplesAll sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
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.
Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.
I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.
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