Lay Claim

Definition: Lay Claim

Lay Claim

Verb

1. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Lay Claim

Command

Claim, lay claim to, revendicate, reclaim.

Dueness

Demand, claim; call upon for, come upon for, appeal to for; revendicate, reclaim; exact; insist on, insist upon; challenge; take one's stand, make a point of, require, lay claim to, assert, assume, arrogate, make good; substantiate; vindicate a claim, vindicate a right; fit for, qualify for; make out a case.

Crosswords: Lay Claim

To which, if we add, that monarchy being simple, and most obvious to men, whom neither experience had instructed in forms of government, nor the ambition or insolence of empire had taught to beware of the encroachments of prerogative, or the inconveniences of absolute power, which monarchy in succession was apt to lay claim to, and bring upon them, it was not at all strange, that they should not much trouble themselves to think of methods of restraining any exorbitances of those to whom they had given the authority over them, and of balancing the power of government, by placing several parts of it in different hands. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "lay claim": lay claim to ♦ To lay claim to. Additional references.

Finnish

vaatia (call for, claim, demand, insist, lay claim to, postulate, require). (various references)

German

etwas beanspruchen (to lay claim to something), Anspruch erheben auf (to assert one's claims to..., to enforce one's claims to..., to lay claim to). (various references)

Greek 

διεκδικώ (assert, claim, contest, dispute, lay claim to, vindicate). (various references)

Hungarian

követel vmit (to clamor for sg, to clamour for sg, to lay claim to sg), igényt tart vmire (to lay claim to sg, to vindicate), igényel vmit (to lay claim to sg). (various references)

Indonesian

mendakwai (claim, lay claim to). (various references)

Pig Latin

aylay aimclay

Portuguese

reclamar (assert, call, challenge, demand, exact, have, kick off, lay claim to, obtestation, outcry, postulate, protest, reclaim, remonstrate, require), desnudar (bare, denudate, denude, lay claim to, strip). (various references)

Romanian

face cerere pentru (lay claim to). (various references)

Turkish

sahip çıkmak (adopt, claim, lay claim to, make a claim to, protect, stake out a claim). (various references)

Welsh

ymhonni (lay claim to, pretend). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: amylic, calami, calmly, camail, lacily, laical.

-3 letters: aliya, allay, calla, claim, lamia, lilac, llama, maill, malic.

-4 letters: acyl, ally, alma, amia, amyl, call, calm, clam, clay, cyma, illy, lacy, laic, lama, lily, lima, limy, mail, mall, maya, mica, mill, yill.

-5 letters: aal, ail, aim, ala, all, ama, ami, cam, cay, icy, ill, lac, lam, lay, mac, may, mil, yam.

+1 letter: magically, manically.

+2 letters: anemically, atomically, chlamydial, implacably, maniacally, mosaically.

+3 letters: dynamically, gametically, miasmically, somatically.

+4 letters: academically, alchemically, amitotically, anatomically, aromatically, calamitously, climatically, demoniacally, dogmatically, dramatically, empathically, emphatically, harmonically, immaculately, magnetically, magnifically, majestically, mechanically, metallically, monastically, romantically, semantically, simoniacally, thematically, unicamerally.

+5 letters: acronymically, agronomically, apomictically, asthmatically, atomistically, automatically, autonomically, axiomatically, bombastically, chromatically, cinematically, climactically, complaisantly, demagogically, diametrically, egomaniacally, enigmatically, enzymatically, formulaically, grammatically, graphemically, gymnastically, idiomatically, imagistically, implacability, impractically, irreclaimably, judgmatically, kinematically, lymphatically, metabolically, metamerically, monarchically, mutagenically, onomastically, panoramically, pneumatically, pragmatically, prismatically, rheumatically, scalariformly, schematically, spasmodically, stigmatically, sympatrically, taxonomically, traumatically.

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