claim

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
claim/kleɪm/

▶verb

• 1 assert that something is the case.

• 2 demand as one's property or earnings.

  ■ request (money) under the terms of an insurance policy.

• 3 call for (someone's attention).

• 4 cause the loss of (someone's life).

▶noun

• 1 an assertion of the truth of something.

  ■ (also statement of claim) a statement of the novel features in a patent.

• 2 a demand for something considered one's due.

  ■ a request for compensation under the terms of an insurance policy.

• 3 (also mining claim) a piece of land allotted to or taken by someone in order to be mined.

– derivatives
claimable adjective,
claimant noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. claime (n.), clamer (v.), from L. clamare ‘call out’.