baggage claim

1. 1.

   an area in an airport where arriving passengers can collect the luggage that has been carried in the hold of the aircraft

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Questions about baggage claim

What does baggage claim mean?

baggage claim means "an area in an airport where arriving passengers can collect the luggage that has been carried in the hold of the aircraft".

Is baggage claim a common word?

baggage claim is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.