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C0381500 (klām)tr.v. claimed, claim·ing, claims 1. 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.2. To take in a violent manner as if by right: a hurricane that claimed two lives.3. To state to be true, especially when open to question; assert or maintain: claimed he had won the race; a candidate claiming many supporters.4. To deserve or call for; require: problems that claim her attention.n.1. A demand for something as rightful or due.2. A basis for demanding something; a title or right.3. Something claimed in a formal or legal manner, especially a tract of public land staked out by a miner or homesteader.4. a. A demand for payment in accordance with an insurance policy or other formal arrangement.b. The sum of money demanded.5. A statement of something as a fact; an assertion of truth: makes no claim to be a cure.Idiom: lay claim to To assert one's right to or ownership of.
[Middle English claimen, from Old French clamer, claim-, from Latin clāmāre, to call; see kelə- in Indo-European roots.]
claim′a·ble adj.claim′er n.