Claim meaning in English

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Definition

a claim: a statement, an opinion; a demand, a written request noun
We never believed his claims of innocence. We think he's lying.
a claim for damages a request or demand for your money back for a damaged product
to claim: to say, to state; to demand, to request verb
He claims that he has never seen her before.
I don't claim to be an expert in French cooking. I've never said that!
He is not who he claims to be. He is lying about who he really is.

UK: She's made a claim for damages against her employer.
US: He claimed to be the son of a millionaire.
  • "One California man thought that he would get a top-level position in a large corporation by claiming he was a member of the Kennedy family."
  • "But is this man really who he claims to be?"
  • "Critics claim that the best ingredients don't always come from your region and that transport is only one element of a food's environmental impact."
  • "At 2.20pm Luna DeLune claims to have seen Icarus Quincy and Bruno having a heated argument by the coffee machine."
  • "A team of French scientists is claiming a major breakthrough in the fight against the avian influenza virus (or "bird flu"): a bird-sized scarf made of wool."
  • "Monday : Eyewitnesses claim to have seen the diminutive juice magnate on the beaches of St."
  • "That goes for all the shareholders you "claim" to represent."
  • "- Don't be stupid enough to respond in any way to unsolicited or suspicious mail claiming to be from a bank."
  • "Another claim Smithson makes is that stress can be a good thing for pregnant women and their babies, citing "faster nerve transmission and perhaps even a greater brain development" in babies whose mothers had been subjected to moderate stress in mid-to-late pregnancy."
  • "You dealt with minor setbacks like Luna DeLune's absurd claim that her LunaBot "had bad energy" (we checked the voltage, she was fine)."

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