Underclaim vs. Claim — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Underclaim and Claim
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Definitions
Underclaim➦
To claim an insufficient amount
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
Claim➦
Formally request or demand; say that one owns or has earned (something)
If no one claims the items, they will become Crown property
Claim➦
Cause the loss of (someone's life)
The attacks claimed the lives of five people
Claim➦
An assertion that something is true
He was dogged by the claim that he had CIA links
Claim➦
A demand or request for something considered one's due
The court had denied their claims to asylum
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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.
Claim➦
To take in a violent manner as if by right
A hurricane that claimed two lives.
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.
Claim➦
To deserve or call for; require
Problems that claim her attention.
Claim➦
A demand for something as rightful or due.
Claim➦
A basis for demanding something; a title or right.
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Claim➦
Something claimed in a formal or legal manner, especially a tract of public land staked out by a miner or homesteader.
Claim➦
A demand for payment in accordance with an insurance policy or other formal arrangement.
Claim➦
The sum of money demanded.
Claim➦
A statement of something as a fact; an assertion of truth
Makes no claim to be a cure.
Claim➦
A demand of ownership made for something.
A claim of ownership
A claim of victory
Claim➦
The thing claimed.
Claim➦
The right or ground of demanding.
You don't have any claim on my time, since I'm no longer your employee.
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.
Claim➦
A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
Miners had to stake their claims during the gold rush.
Claim➦
(legal) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
Claim➦
To demand ownership of.
Claim➦
To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
Claim➦
To demand ownership or right to use for land.
Claim➦
(legal) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
Claim➦
(intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
Claim➦
To cause the loss of, usually by violent means.
The attacks claimed the lives of five people.
A fire claimed two homes.
Claim➦
(obsolete) To proclaim.
Claim➦
(archaic) To call or name.
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
