The meaning of CLAIM is to ask for especially as a right. How to use claim in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Claim.

CLAIM definition: 1. to say that something is true or is a fact, although you cannot prove it and other people might…. Learn more.

Some common synonyms of claim are demand, exact, and require. While all these words mean "to ask or call for something as due or as necessary," claim implies a demand for the delivery or concession of something due as one's own or one's right.

A claim is when you express your right to something that belongs to you, like your medical records or the deed to your home. When you make a claim or claim something, you're demanding it or …

something that is claimed, especially a piece of public land for which formal request is made for mining or other purposes. We filed a claim for compensation from the company.

1. to demand as being due or as one's property; assert one's title or right to: he claimed the record. 2. (takes a clause as object or an infinitive) to assert as a fact; maintain against denial: he claimed to be telling the truth. 3. to call for or need; deserve: this problem claims our attention. 4. to take: the accident claimed four lives.

CLAIM meaning: 1. a statement that something is true, although you have not proved it: 2. to say that you have…. Learn more.

A claim is something which someone says which they cannot prove and which may be false. Most people just don't believe his claims. If you say that someone claims that something is true, you mean they say that it is true but you are not sure whether or not they are telling the truth. He claimed that it was all a conspiracy against him.

CLAIM meaning: 1 : to say that (something) is true when some people may say it is not true often followed by to + verb; 2 : to say that you have (something)

Definition of claim verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.