Claimant
['kleɪm(ə)nt] or ['klemənt]
Definition
(noun.) someone who claims a benefit or right or title; 'claimants of unemployment compensation'; 'he was a claimant to the throne'.
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Definition
(n.) One who claims; one who asserts a right or title; a claimer.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Assertor, vindicator, appellant, litigant
ANT:Relinquisher, resigner, conceder, waiver, renouncer, abjurer
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Examples
- There would have been a perpetual campaign to Americanize Australia and New Zealand, and yet another claimant for a share in tropical Africa. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She would marry, and would have new claimants on her tenderness; and in doing it, would never know the love for her that had grown up in my heart. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It is painful and difficult to decide when we find two claimants thus directly in opposition to each other, and mutually preferring charges of falsehood and fraud. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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