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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“I dare say your claim to sympathy is just as strong as mine.
When a minister’s wife has so many claims on her time!
Darcy chose to doubt it--or to treat it as a merely conditional recommendation, and to assert that I had forfeited all claim to it by extravagance, imprudence, in short, anything or nothing.
Society has claims on us all; and I profess myself one of those who consider intervals of recreation and amusement as desirable for everybody.”
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