Claim

Definition

claim /kleÇm/ v ၁။ အခိုင္အမာဆိုသည္။ 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။ (ရသင့္ရထိုက္သည္ကို)ေတာင္း ဆိုသည္။ 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) အာမခံေလ်ာ္ေၾကးေတာင္းသည္။ Have you claimed (the insurance) yet? ❍ You can always claim on the insurance. (ခ) နစ္နာေၾကးေတာင္းသည္။ They claimed damages for the company's failure to honour the contract. ❍ claim a refund. (ဂ) သက္ဆိုင္ရာထံမွ ရသင့္ေငြ ကို ေတာင္းသည္။ claim unemployment benefit ❍ claim expenses for a business trip. ၄။ လိုအပ္သည္။ ထိုက္သင့္သည္။ important matters claiming one's attention. ၅။ ပ်က္စီးဆံုး႐ံႈးေစသည္။ ေသေက်ပ်က္စီးေစသည္။ The earthquake claimed thousands of lives/victims. n ၁။ [C] အဆို။ ေျပာဆိုခ်က္။ Despite his claims of innocence, he was found guilty. ၂။ [C, U] ~ (to sth) ; ~ (on sb/sth) ရသင့္ရထိုက္သည္ဟု ယူဆေသာ အခြင့္အေရး။ 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. သူ႕မွာ ထူးထူး ျခားျခားရယ္လို႔ ေျပာရရင္ ဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္နဲ႔ ေက်ာင္းေနဖက္ ျဖစ္ခဲ့ဖူး တာပဲရိွတယ္။ ၃။ [C] (က) ~ (for sth) ရသင့္သည္ကို ေတာင္း ဆိုျခင္း။ ရသင့္သည္ဟု ယူဆေတာင္းဆိုျခင္း။ make a claim on an insurance policy ❍ put in a claim for a pay rise. (ခ) ထိုသို႔ေတာင္းခံေသာေငြ။ The insurance company paid the full claim. ❏ claimant /'kleÇmǝnt/ n ေတာင္းဆိုသူ။ ေတာင္းခံသူ။ claimants for state benefits ❍ insurance claimants. ❏ claim sth back [ PHRV ] အခြင့္အေရးရိွ၍ ျပန္ေတာင္းသည္။ You can claim your money back if the goods are damaged. ❏ lay claim to sth [ IDM ] ၁။ ရထိုက္သည္ဟု ေတာင္းဆို သည္။ lay claim to an inheritance/an estate/a property. ၂။ (usu negative) …ဟုဆိုလိုသည္။ I lay no claim to being an expert economist. ငါ့ကိုယ္ငါ စီးပြားေရးပါရဂူလို႔ မဆိုလိုပါဘူး။

Examples

1. [claim (that)] : The report claimed that hundreds of civilians had crossed the border to escape the fighting.
2. He claims he is innocent.
3. [claim to do something] : The organization claims to represent more than 20
4. 000 firms.
5. She is claiming sexual harassment against her boss.
6. Henry VII claimed the English throne after defeating Richard III.
7. Has anyone claimed the wallet I handed in yesterday?
8. [claim credit/responsibility/victory etc] : I can’t claim all the credit for our success.
9. The back of the form tells you how to claim your refund.
10. Are you claiming unemployment benefit?
11. [claim on] : Can you claim on your insurance for damage to furniture?
12. She claimed political asylum in 1986.
13. The flood has now claimed over 500 lives.
14. The meningitis outbreak claimed a third victim today.
15. 1976 was also the year Borg claimed his first Wimbledon title.
16. Several more urgent matters were claiming her attention.