claim : Idioms & Phrases

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baggage claim

  • noun 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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claim agent

  • noun one who investigates insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement
    adjustor; adjuster; claims adjuster; claim agent.
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claim form

  • noun a form to use when filing a claim
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claim jumper

  • noun one who illegally occupies property to which another has a legal claim
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claiming race

  • noun a horse race in which each owner declares before the race at what price his horse will be offered for sale after the race
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claims adjuster

  • noun one who investigates insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement
    adjustor; adjuster; claims adjuster; claim agent.
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claims adjustor

  • noun one who investigates insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement
    adjustor; adjuster; claims adjuster; claim agent.
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Indirect claims

  • claims for remote or consequential damage. Such claims were presented to and thrown out by the commissioners who arbitrated the damage inflicted on the United States by the Confederate States cruisers built and supplied by Great Britain.
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insurance claim

  • noun demand for payment in accordance with an insurance policy
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lay claim

  • verb demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to
    claim; arrogate.
    • He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter
    • Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident
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laying claim

  • noun the act of taking possession of or power over something
    assumption.
    • 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
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pay claim

  • noun the wage demanded from management for workers by their union representatives
    pay claim.
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To jump a claim

  • to enter upon and take possession of land to which another has acquired a claim by prior entry and occupation. Western U. S. & Australia See Claim, n., 3.
Webster 1913

wage claim

  • noun the wage demanded from management for workers by their union representatives
    pay claim.
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