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claimed

/kleym/US // kleɪm //UK // (kleɪm) //

声称,要求,宣称,声称的

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
    • : to assert and demand the recognition of; assert one's right to: to claim payment for services.
    • : to assert or maintain as a fact: She claimed that he was telling the truth.
    • : to require as due or fitting: to claim respect.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make or file a claim: to claim for additional compensation.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a demand for something as due; an assertion of a right or an alleged right: He made unreasonable claims on the doctor's time.
    • : an assertion of something as a fact: He made no claims to originality.
    • : a right to claim or demand; a just title to something: His claim to the heavyweight title is disputed.
    • : something that is claimed, especially a piece of public land for which formal request is made for mining or other purposes.
    • : a request or demand for payment in accordance with an insurance policy, a workers' compensation law, etc.: We filed a claim for compensation from the company.

Phrases

  • claim check
  • lay claim to
  • stake a claim

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbdemand, maintain property or right

Examples

  • Part of the challenge is a seeming disconnect between the claim that “schools aren’t superspreaders” and the objective fact that some people tested at schools are found to have covid-19.

  • Yet significant though the fire’s impact was, the Battle of Actium a century earlier, and mentioned by Barrett, perhaps has greater claims as a classical watershed.

  • Unemployment insurance claims rose last week for the first time since early October.

  • Later, Fox News reporter Kristin Fisher called the news conference “colorful” and “light on facts,” noting that several of Giuliani’s more outlandish claims were simply not true.

  • Her claims about widespread unwanted sterilizations quickly came under scrutiny.

  • Unconfirmed reports in the French media claimed that the brothers were spotted at a gas station in northern France on Thursday.

  • Only two senators opposed the resolution, which the administration later claimed was the authority for a full-scale war.

  • Later reports say that authorities claimed to be merely escorting him back to his house arrest.

  • The Kurds claimed at least 100 Islamic militants were killed in the two-day battle to lift the siege.

  • Another supposed group, calling itself the New Romantic Cyber Army, also claimed credit.

  • Carpenter were the leaders, and this is claimed to have been the origin of Mechanics' Institutes.

  • A story or narrative is invented for the purpose of helping the student, as it is claimed, to memorise it.

  • Here the proud state that claimed him as her own offspring, met him with the injustice of a malignant step-dame.

  • Thus if a man threatened to fill up your well because it stood, as he claimed, on his land, you had no preventive remedy at law.

  • She found no consolation in the fact that she had been encouraged to do as she had done by those who claimed to love her.