claimant

/ˈkleɪm(ə)nt/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈkleɪm(ə)nt/

claimant

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

clai - mant -> claimant

Myanmar meaning

(n) တောင်းဆိုသူ။ တောင်းခံသူ။

Full entry

claim /kleÇm/ v

၁။ အခိုင်အမာဆိုသည်။
After the battle both sides claimed victory. ❍ She claims (that) she is related to the author. ❍ He claimed to have been abroad when the crime was committed.
၂။ (ရသင့်ရထိုက်သည်ကို)တောင်း ဆိုသည်။
claim diplomatic immunity/the protection of the law ❍ After the Duke's death, his eldest son claimed the title. ❍ She claims ownership (ie says she is the real owner) of the land. ❍ claim an item of lost property.
၃။ (က) အာမခံလျော်ကြေးတောင်းသည်။
Have you claimed (the insurance) yet? ❍ You can always claim on the insurance.
(ခ) နစ်နာကြေးတောင်းသည်။
They claimed damages for the company's failure to honour the contract. ❍ claim a refund. (ဂ) သက်ဆိုင်ရာထံမှ ရသင့်ငွေ ကို တောင်းသည်။ claim unemployment benefit ❍ claim expenses for a business trip.
၄။ လိုအပ်သည်။ ထိုက်သင့်သည်။ important matters claiming one's attention.
၅။ ပျက်စီးဆုံးရှုံးစေသည်။ သေကျေပျက်စီးစေသည်။
The earthquake claimed thousands of lives/victims.
n
၁။ [C] အဆို။ ပြောဆိုချက်။ Despite his claims of innocence, he was found guilty.
၂။ [C, U] ~ (to sth) ; ~ (on sb/sth) ရသင့်ရထိုက်သည်ဟု ယူဆသော အခွင့်အရေး။ His claim to ownership of the land was contested in court. ❍ I make no claim to expertise in such matters. ❍ You have no claim on me (ie no right to demand anything from me). ❍ His only claim to fame is that he was at school with the prime minister. သူ့မှာ ထူးထူး ခြားခြားရယ်လို့ ပြောရရင် ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်နဲ့ ကျောင်းနေဖက် ဖြစ်ခဲ့ဖူး တာပဲရှိတယ်။
၃။ [C] (က) ~ (for sth) ရသင့်သည်ကို တောင်း ဆိုခြင်း။ ရသင့်သည်ဟု ယူဆတောင်းဆိုခြင်း။ make a claim on an insurance policy ❍ put in a claim for a pay rise.
(ခ) ထိုသို့တောင်းခံသောငွေ။ The insurance company paid the full claim.
❏ claimant /'kleÇmǝnt/ n တောင်းဆိုသူ။ တောင်းခံသူ။ claimants for state benefits ❍ insurance claimants.
❏ claim sth back [PHRV ] အခွင့်အရေးရှိ၍ ပြန်တောင်းသည်။ You can claim your money back if the goods are damaged.
❏ lay claim to sth [IDM ]
၁။ ရထိုက်သည်ဟု တောင်းဆို သည်။ lay claim to an inheritance/an estate/a property.
၂။ (usu negative) …ဟုဆိုလိုသည်။
I lay no claim to being an expert economist. ငါ့ကိုယ်ငါ စီးပွားရေးပါရဂူလို့ မဆိုလိုပါဘူး။

More examples

[claim (that)] : The report claimed that hundreds of civilians had crossed the border to escape the fighting.
He claims he is innocent.
[claim to do something] : The organization claims to represent more than 20, 000 firms.
She is claiming sexual harassment against her boss.
Henry VII claimed the English throne after defeating Richard III.
Has anyone claimed the wallet I handed in yesterday?
[claim credit/responsibility/victory etc] : I can’t claim all the credit for our success.
The back of the form tells you how to claim your refund.
Are you claiming unemployment benefit?
[claim on] : Can you claim on your insurance for damage to furniture?
She claimed political asylum in 1986.
The flood has now claimed over 500 lives.
The meningitis outbreak claimed a third victim today.
1976 was also the year Borg claimed his first Wimbledon title.
Several more urgent matters were claiming her attention.

Synonyms

maintain, assert, say, state, declare, argue, allege, aver, profess, accusation, adduce, advance, affirmation, allegation, appeal, application, apply for, ask, ask for, assertion, believe, birthright, call, call for, case, challenge, collect, contention, counterclaim, declaration, defend, demand, dibs, due, entitlement, entreaty, exact, have dibs on something, hit, hit up, hold, hold out for, insist, interest, justify, knock, lay claim to, lien, need, obtain, part, petition, pick up, plea, pop the question, postulate, postulation, prerogative, pretend, pretense, pretension, privilege, profession, pronounce, property, protestation, receive, reclamation, request, require, requirement, requisition, retrieve, right, solicit, stake out, statement, sue, suit, take, title, ultimatum, uphold, vindicate

Antonyms

abandon, answer, conceal, denial, deny, desert, disbelieve, disclaim, forsake, give, hide, honesty, question, quit, reject, reply, repudiate, stop, truth