Claim vs. Redeem — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Claim and Redeem
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Claim
State or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof
‘I'm entitled to be conceited,’ he claimed
Not every employee is eligible to claim unfair dismissal
The Prime Minister claimed that he was concerned about Third World debt
Redeem
To recover ownership of by paying a specified sum
Redeemed the ring from the pawnbroker.
Claim
Formally request or demand; say that one owns or has earned (something)
If no one claims the items, they will become Crown property
Redeem
To pay off (a promissory note, for example).
Claim
Cause the loss of (someone's life)
The attacks claimed the lives of five people
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Redeem
To turn in (coupons, for example) and receive something in exchange.
Claim
An assertion that something is true
He was dogged by the claim that he had CIA links
Redeem
To convert into cash
Redeem stocks.
Claim
A demand or request for something considered one's due
The court had denied their claims to asylum
Redeem
To fulfill (a pledge, for example)
"That is the unfinished work of our time, to lift the burden of race and redeem the promise of America" (Bill Clinton).
Claim
To demand, ask for, or take as one's own or one's due
Claim a reward.
Claim one's luggage at the airport carousel.
Redeem
To set free, as from slavery or kidnapping, by providing money or other compensation.
Claim
To take in a violent manner as if by right
A hurricane that claimed two lives.
Redeem
To save (a person or soul) from a state of sinfulness and its consequences. ]
Claim
To state to be true, especially when open to question; assert or maintain
Claimed he had won the race.
A candidate claiming many supporters.
Redeem
(transitive) To recover ownership of something by buying it back.
Claim
To deserve or call for; require
Problems that claim her attention.
Redeem
(transitive) To liberate by payment of a ransom.
Claim
A demand for something as rightful or due.
Redeem
(transitive) To set free by force.
Claim
A basis for demanding something; a title or right.
Redeem
(transitive) To save, rescue
Claim
Something claimed in a formal or legal manner, especially a tract of public land staked out by a miner or homesteader.
Redeem
(transitive) To clear, release from debt or blame
Claim
A demand for payment in accordance with an insurance policy or other formal arrangement.
Redeem
(transitive) To expiate, atone (for)
Claim
The sum of money demanded.
Redeem
To convert (some bond or security) into cash
Claim
A statement of something as a fact; an assertion of truth
Makes no claim to be a cure.
Redeem
(transitive) To save from a state of sin (and from its consequences).
Claim
A demand of ownership made for something.
A claim of ownership
A claim of victory
Redeem
(transitive) To repair, restore
Claim
The thing claimed.
Redeem
(transitive) To reform, change (for the better)
Claim
The right or ground of demanding.
You don't have any claim on my time, since I'm no longer your employee.
Redeem
(transitive) To restore the honour, worth, or reputation of oneself or something.
Claim
A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided.
The company's share price dropped amid claims of accounting fraud.
Redeem
To reclaim
Claim
A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
Miners had to stake their claims during the gold rush.
Redeem
To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.
If a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold.
Claim
(legal) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
Redeem
To recall, as an estate, or to regain, as mortgaged property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage.
Claim
To demand ownership of.
Redeem
To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like.
Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.
The Almighty from the graveHath me redeemed.
Claim
To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
Redeem
Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us.
Claim
To demand ownership or right to use for land.
Redeem
To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.
I will redeem all this on Percy's head.
Claim
(legal) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
Redeem
To pay the penalty of; to make amends for; to serve as an equivalent or offset for; to atone for; to compensate; as, to redeem an error.
Which of ye will be mortal, to redeemMan's mortal crime?
It is a chance which does redeem all sorrows.
Claim
(intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
Redeem
Save from sins
Claim
To cause the loss of, usually by violent means.
The attacks claimed the lives of five people.
A fire claimed two homes.
Redeem
Exchange or buy back for money; under threat
Claim
(obsolete) To proclaim.
Redeem
Pay off (loans or promissory notes)
Claim
(archaic) To call or name.
Redeem
Convert into cash; of commercial papers
Claim
To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
Claim
To proclaim.
Claim
To call or name.
Claim
To assert; to maintain.
Claim
To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority.
Claim
A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.
Claim
A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant.
Claim
The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; ; as, a settler's claim; a miner's claim.
Claim
A loud call.
Claim
An assertion of a right (as to money or property);
His claim asked for damages
Claim
An assertion that something is true or factual;
His claim that he was innocent
Evidence contradicted the government's claims
Claim
Demand for something as rightful or due;
They struck in support of their claim for a shorter work day
Claim
An informal right to something;
His claim on her attentions
His title to fame
Claim
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
Claim
A demand especially in the phrase
The call of duty
Claim
Assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing;
He claimed that he killed the burglar
Claim
Demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to;
He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter
Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident
Claim
Ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example;
They claimed on the maximum allowable amount
Claim
Lay claim to; as of an idea;
She took credit for the whole idea
Claim
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
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