See Also: CLAIM(law)
non-claim(dictionary)
Claim Of Right(law)
claim(2)(dictionary)
NON CLAIM(law)
claim(1)(dictionary)
Specified Claim(law)
No claim bonus(finance)
Insurance claim(finance)
claim 1, verb(dictionary)

claim(2) (iou)



claim verb. ME.
[Old French claim- tonic stem of clamer to cry, call, appeal, from Latin clamare. Cf. CLAMOUR noun.]
I. verb trans.
Demand as one's due or property, require as a right, (arch. foll. by that, to be + pa. ppl adjective); fig. have as a property, achievement, or consequence, esp. take by death. ME.
C. Merivale He claimed that his word should be law. J. R. Green Every townsman could claim to be tried by his fellow-townsman. B. Pym The television screen was beginning to claim their full attention. M. M. Kaye The cholera had claimed four more lives. Which? You should claim a refund of the repair cost from the shop.
Assert or demand recognition of (the fact that); represent oneself as having, oneself to be, to have done; represent oneself so as to seem to do; assert, contend, that. ME.
Defoe Both sides claimed the victory. E. Waugh Basil claimed to have eaten a girl once in Africa. G. Greene She never claimed to like a thing that she disliked. M. Holroyd He claimed to be a descendant of Owen Glendower. E. Crispin The Major could sense a journalist, or..claimed he could.
Name (as), proclaim (to be); represent (oneself) as. ME-L16.
Of a thing: have a right to, deserve, call for. E17.
J. Tyndall One other point..which claims our attention.
II. verb intrans.
Put forward a claim; assert a right; represent oneself to be. Now only spec. make a claim for indemnity on an insurance company. ME.
Pope Say from what scepter'd ancestry ye claim.
claimable adjective E17.
claimant noun a person who makes a claim, esp. formally; a person who has a claim (up)on: L17.
claimer noun LME.