Claimant vs Claimed - What's the difference?
claimant | claimed |
One who claims; one who makes a claim.
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, chapter=2 (UK) A person receiving money from the government, in a form of unemployment benefits, disability benefits or similar.
(legal) The party who initiates a lawsuit before a court.
(claim)
A demand of ownership made for something (e.g. claim ownership, claim victory).
A new statement of truth made about something, usually when the statement has yet to be verified.
A demand of ownership for previously unowned land (e.g. in the gold rush, oil rush)
(legal) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
To demand ownership of.
To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
To demand ownership or right to use for land.
(legal) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
* John Locke
To proclaim.
To call or name.
As a noun claimant
is one who claims; one who makes a claim.As a verb claimed is
(claim).claimant
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(wikipedia claimant) (en noun)citation, passage=“Two or three months more went by?; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”}}
Anagrams
*claimed
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(head)Anagrams
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Alternative forms
* claym (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
* Demand ownership of land not previously owned. One usually stakes a claim. * The legal sense. One usually makes a claim. SeeVerb
(en verb)- We must know how the first ruler, from whom anyone claims , came by his authority.
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