jump a claim Definition

claim
verb claimed, claiming

1. To state something firmly, insisting on its truth.

Example: She claimed that she was innocent
Thesaurus: believe, maintain, hold, affirm, assert, state, insist, allege, profess.
2. To declare oneself (to be, to have done, etc).
3. To assert that one has something.

Example: He claimed no knowledge of the crime
tr & intr
4. To demand or assert as a right.

Example: He claimed his prize
Thesaurus: demand, request, exact, compel.
5. To take or use up something.

Example: The hurricane claimed 300 lives
6a. To need;
6b. To deserve;
6c. To have a right to something.

Example: The baby claimed its mother's attention
7. To declare that one is the owner of something.

Example: I claimed my umbrella from the lost property office
8. To identify oneself as having responsibility or being responsible for something.
intr
9. To make a claim or put in a claim for something, in acccordance with an insurance policy.

Example: He claimed for a new windscreen

noun

1. A statement of something as a truth.
2. A demand, especially for something to which one has, or believes one has, a right.

Example: lay claim to the throne
3. A right to or reason for something.

Example: a claim to fame
Thesaurus: right, title, petition, privilege, pretension, protestation.
4. Something one has claimed, eg a piece of land or a sum of money.
5. A demand for compensation in the form of money, in accordance with an insurance policy etc.

Derivative: claimable
adj

Derivative: claimant
noun

A person who applies for something as a right
Thesaurus: petitioner, applicant, supplicant.

Idiom: jump a claim

To claim land containing gold, oil, etc which already belongs to someone else.

Idiom: lay claim to something

To assert a right to it.

Etymology: 13c: from Latin clamare to cry out.