claim
/kleɪm/ noun B1- A demand of ownership made for something. · a claim of ownership· a claim of victory
- The thing claimed.
- The right or ground of demanding. · You don't have any claim on my time, since I'm no longer your employee.
- A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided. · The company's share price dropped amid claims of accounting fraud.
- A demand of ownership for previously unowned land. · Miners had to stake their claims during the gold rush.
- A legal demand for compensation or damages.
Plural claims
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The Physician insisted on his claim, and, as she still refused, summoned her before the Judge.
When each had fully stated his case the Ape announced this sentence: “I do not think you, Wolf, ever lost what you claim; and I do believe you, Fox, to have stolen what you so stoutly deny.”
But one day the girl thought of Aunt Em, and said, “We must go back to Oz, and claim his promise.”
“We have come to claim our promise, O Oz.”
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