| 单词 | claimant |
| 释义 | claimant (kleɪmənt ) Word forms: claimants 1. countable noun A claimant is someone who is receiving money from the state because they are unemployed or they are unable to work because they are ill. [British] ...benefit claimants. 2. countable noun A claimant is someone who asks to be given something which they think they are entitled to. The compensation will be split between 140 claimants. ...Louis-Alphonso, the rival claimant to the French throne. Synonyms: applicant, pretender, petitioner, supplicant [formal] Collocations: benefit claimant All incapacity benefit claimants will be forced to undergo tests to prove that they are unfit to work. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Under the plans, job advisers will be given powers to send benefits claimants on placements for at least 30 hours a week for four weeks. Times, Sunday Times (2010) It is rumoured benefits claimants may be given a yellow card instead of an instant sanction before money is docked for failing to meet their terms to get benefits. The Sun (2015) Another refused to pay a claimant because they had failed to re-grout their bathroom tiles every 12 months. The Sun A personal remedy asserts that the defendant must pay the claimant a sum of money. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When a court orders compensation it orders the defendant to pay the claimant for his or her loss. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They could also have to pay a claimant's costs in legal actions even if they had won. Times, Sunday Times This means that when the defendant loses, he pays the claimant's costs, though when the claimant loses, each side bears its own costs. Times, Sunday Times The confined nature of that additional class of potential claimant was well illustrated by the facts of the present case. Times, Sunday Times The payout would also be shared by potential claimants who could join in the coming months. Times,Sunday Times Calls are screened by the company's team of law graduates, who put potential claimants in touch with a network of personal - injury solicitors. Times, Sunday Times It requires potential claimants to show actual or probable 'serious harm' caused by a written or spoken statement. Times, Sunday Times Consumer specialist law firms have already unsubtly shouted about being swamped with potential claimants. Times, Sunday Times Parliament remained part of the royal toy box, not a rival claimant to sovereignty. The Times Literary Supplement The latter was then asked if he came as a mourner or a rival claimant to the heirship. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Now, public or private, there are or were a number of rival claimants in this competitive sphere. The Times Literary Supplement Must we decide a literary issue according to the rival claimants' use of maths, or statistics? The Times Literary Supplement There appear to have been no rival claimants for his relics. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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