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Claim vs. Redeem — What's the Difference?

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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