lay claim en · VERB
Meanings
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(idiomatic, usually, with-to) To state that something belongs to oneself.
Just ahead of the auction, though, a potential heir from outside the family, laid claim on the work, according to Austria's Der Standard newspaper.
2024 May 4, Melanie Gerlies, “New claimant to €35 mn Klimt emerges”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18:Argentina also lays claim to what is now Queen Elizabeth Land, as well as to other South Atlantic dependencies including South Georgia and the uninhabited South Sandwich Islands.
2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, The Guardian:Spencer University lays claim to the recently published discovery.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| lays claim | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| laying claim | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| laid claim | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| laid claim | Tense=Past | lexicographic |
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Translations (12)
ka მიკუთვნება (say that something belongs to oneself) · zh 要求承认 (say that something belongs to oneself) · fi vaatia itselleen (say that something belongs to oneself) · pl rościć sobie (say that something belongs to oneself) · zh 要求承認 (say that something belongs to oneself) · fr revendiquer (say that something belongs to oneself) · zh 请求权利 (say that something belongs to oneself) · fi vaatia (say that something belongs to oneself) · de Anspruch erheben (say that something belongs to oneself) · zh 請求權利 (say that something belongs to oneself) · he קבע בעלות (say that something belongs to oneself) · sv göra anspråk (say that something belongs to oneself)