stake a claim
If you stake a claim to something, you say or show that you have a right to it and that it should belong to you:
He marked the spot on his map where he had seen the gold and returned later that month to stake his claim.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Announcing, informing & stating
- acquaint sb/yourself with sth
- advise
- advisement
- annunciation
- awake
- come out
- confront
- declare
- fyi
- give sb a heads up idiom
- hand
- head
- let sb know idiom
- official
- pronouncement
- put
- put sth out 1
- spread the word idiom
- tell
- unannounced
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Having and owning - general words