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say it: klaym
claim is a noun and verb meaning "an assertion of a right (as to money or property)". It is pronounced /ˈkleɪm/ — klaym. It carries 11 recorded senses.
an assertion of a right (as to money or property)
“his claim asked for damages”
an assertion that something is true or factual
“his claim that he was innocent”
“evidence contradicted the government's claims”
demand for something as rightful or due
“they struck in support of their claim for a shorter work day”
an established or recognized right
“a strong legal claim to the property”
“he had no documents confirming his title to his father's estate”
“he staked his claim”
ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example
“They claimed on the maximum allowable amount”
take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
“the accident claimed three lives”
“The hard work took its toll on her”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for claim come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.