Word Finder - claim

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A demand of ownership made for something.

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a claim of ownership

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The thing claimed.

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The right or ground of demanding.

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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.

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The company's share price dropped amid claims of accounting fraud.

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A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.

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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.

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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.

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To cause the loss of, usually by violent means.

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A fire claimed two homes.

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To proclaim.

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To call or name.

They claim there's not enough evidence it's him.

She would claim to be a research scientist.

That claim is simply not true.

In fact she had avoided - even pushed away those who might want to claim close friendship.

He stepped back from the desk, as if fearing the compass would claim his soul right there.

After all, she had no claim on Alex.

I can't claim this massacre.

He'd made his claim clear.

Why, then, was he hesitating to claim the woman who clearly wanted to be by his side?

You would hesitate to claim her as you should.

I've heard a few women claim they believed that, but it's a little hard to believe, in this day.

And because it changed for the better, wondrously better, we can proudly claim our part in its forming.

In fact, you did – and do – refuse to claim your mate.

He might show up any time to claim the ranch.

She went to claim it.

It may or may not be true, but this restaurant lays claim to serving the first fajitas in the nation.

Though she fought sleep, it started to claim her anyway.

There are ways of releasing you from Rhyn's claim, and there are ways of erasing your memory.

The restaurant's real claim to fame is the cooking method.

The urge to claim her was strong, but so was the need to let her have the choice he never had.

The first serious conflict that arose between the developing modern state and the papacy centred about the pope's claim that the property of the clergy was normally exempt from royal taxation.

Bethe, deny them all claim to psychical qualities.

Texas (q.v.) was compelled to give up much of the western land to which it had a good claim, and received in return $10,000,000.

The great majority of the population is Burmese, but in Yaw there is a peculiar race called Taungthas, who claim to be quite distinct from both Burmese and Chins.

He lays no claim to the position of an original artist painting from life or commenting on the results of his own observation.

So the power of the pope no longer rested upon his headship of the Church or his authority as a secular prince, but on a far more comprehensive claim to universal dominion.

A second rising was caused when, on the death of Ulrich II., count of Weimar and OrlamUnde, without issue in 1112, Henry seized these counties as vacant fiefs of the empire, while Lothair supported the claim of Siegfried, count of Ballenstadt, whose mother was a relative of Ulrich.

It is in the simple narrative and naive egotism of Le Mie prigioni that he has established his strongest claim to remembrance, winning fame by his misfortunes rather than by his genius.

Such authority must be superhuman, otherwise it can have no claim on our respect; it must, therefore, be divine.

As much as he hated to admit it, Darkyn wasn't one to wait to claim debts owed him.

The worst of it is, now he thinks he has some kind of claim staked on me.

Other Hungarian exiles protested against the claim he appeared to make that he was the one national hero of the revolution.

Urban VIII., however, put in a claim to Ferrara, which, it will be remembered, had been recognized a papal fief in 1530.

The annuity payable to the pope has, for instance, been made subject to quinquennial prescription, so that in the event of tardy recognition of the law the Vatican could at no time claim payment of more than five years annuity with interest.

In this year Dietrich died and Frederick became reconciled with his father, who, after renouncing his claim on Meissen for a yearly payment, died in 1314.

Hartwig, archbishop of Bremen, wished these sees to be under his authority, but Henry contested this claim, and won the right to invest these bishops himself, a privilege afterwards confirmed by the emperor Frederick I.

His successor Alchred claimed descent from Ida, but Simeon of Durham appears to doubt the truth of his claim.

Quarrels of a kind only too common among exiles followed; the Hungarians were especially offended by his claim still to be called governor.

El-`Azariyeh is a poor village of about thirty families, with few marks of antiquity; there is no reason to believe that the houses of Mary and Martha and of Simon the Leper, or the sepulchre of Lazarus, still shown by the monks, have any claim to the names they bear.

One section of public opinion desired to make Piedmonts co-operation subject to definite promises by the Powers; but the latter refused to bind, themselves, and both Victor Emmanuel and Cavour realized that, even without such promises, participation would give Piedmont a claim.

There was disagreement from the first, however, with regard to the measure of loyalty to the king, and in 1643, when Massachusetts had asserted her claim to this region and the other three New Hampshire towns had submitted to her jurisdiction, the majority of the inhabitants of Exeter also yielded, while the minority, including the founder, removed from the town.

Many of them are known as "Jogi," and lay claim to miraculous powers which they declare have become theirs by the practice of abstinence and extreme austerities.

In this he was successful at the same council which witnessed his third victory over Berengar (1059), and he thus acquired a lasting claim on William's gratitude.

Pausanias makes no claim to exhaustiveness; he selected what was best worth noticing (Ta a i coXoyc.,rara).

His second son, Sancho, enforced his claim to be heir, in preference to the children of Ferdinand de la Cerda, the elder brother who died in Alphonso's life.

In 1780 he outlined the plan which was subsequently adopted by Virginia for ceding to the Federal government her claim to the "back lands," i.e.

Theoretical considerations as to how far Kopp was justified in choosing the boiling-points under atmospheric pressure as being comparable states for different substances now claim our attention.

This was creditable to both parties, for Lamartine, both as a distinguished man of letters and as a past servant of the state, had every claim to the bounty of his country.

In 1139 Geoffrey took Mirebeau, and in 1142 Champtoceaux, but in 1145 a new revolt broke out, this time under the leadership of Elias, the count's own brother, who, again with the assistance of Robert of Sable, laid claim to the countship of Maine.

But the pope laid claim to a direct power over the civil governments.