Definition of claimant in English:
claimant
noun ˈkleɪm(ə)ntˈkleɪmənt
A person making a claim, especially in a lawsuit or for a state benefit.
one in four eligible claimants failed to register for a rebate
Example sentencesExamples
- The claimants were represented by prominent leading counsel and three juniors.
- The judge rejected all three complaints, and the claimant then appealed to this court.
- The defendant does not contend that the claimant elected to affirm the contract.
- The claimant's complaint is that what he is permitted by the hospital does not go far enough.
- The claimants and the defendants produced differing translations of the clause.
- It is accepted by the claimant that the defendant has a right of way for residential purposes.
- Each case will turn on its own facts but in my view the claimants are more likely to succeed than the defendants.
- It was as if the claimant's complaint had been without any merit at all, as if it had been contrived.
- The claimants denied any breach of their obligations and sought declarations to that effect.
- There was in fact no evidence of malicious attack by any third party, let alone the claimant.
- The second condition is that the agreement causes damage to the particular claimant.
- He sold the land to the claimants and they granted him in return a rent-free life tenancy.
- All claimants claim that there was a conspiracy by the defendants to injure them by unlawful means.
- If the builders had never built the dairy of course the claimants could not have complained.
- Nor have I forgotten that little if any disclosure was made by the claimants on this topic.
- The claimants ' solicitors will then forward a file of the submissions to my clerk.
- I have held against the claimants on each of the four grounds advanced before me.
- Both the claimants and the defendants are in business for the purpose of making a profit.
- The Court of Appeal reversed the trial judge and gave judgment for the claimant.
- I must do the best I can to be fair to both the claimant and the defendant on the evidence that is before me.
Synonyms
applicant, candidate, supplicant, suppliant, pretender, suitor
petitioner, plaintiff, litigant, appellant
rare pretendant
Rhymes
clamant, payment, raiment