laying claim

1. 1.

   the act of taking possession of or power over something

   “his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba”

   “the Nazi assumption of power in 1934”

   “he acquired all the company's assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the company's debts”

   Synonymsassumption

   Broaderacquisition

Questions about laying claim

What does laying claim mean?

laying claim means "the act of taking possession of or power over something".

What is another word for laying claim?

Close synonyms include assumption. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is laying claim a common word?

laying 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.