claim: Bedeutung und Definitionen

To demand, ask for, or take as one's own or one's due: claim a reward; claim one's luggage at the airport carousel.

To take in a violent manner as if by right: a hurricane that claimed two lives.

To state to be true, especially when open to question; assert or maintain: claimed he had won the race; a candidate claiming many supporters.

To deserve or call for; require: problems that claim her attention.

A demand for something as rightful or due.

A basis for demanding something; a title or right.

Something claimed in a formal or legal manner, especially a tract of public land staked out by a miner or homesteader.

A demand for payment in accordance with an insurance policy or other formal arrangement.

The sum of money demanded.

A statement of something as a fact; an assertion of truth: makes no claim to be a cure.

lay claim to To assert one's right to or ownership of.