claimantnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkleɪ.mənt/us/ˈkleɪ.mənt/a person who asks for something that they believe belongs to them or that they have a right to
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Social security & state benefits
- AFDC
- be on relief idiom
- benefit
- child benefit
- claim
- dole
- family allowance
- family credit
- giro
- housing benefit
- income support
- means testing
- sickness benefit
- sign
- sign off
- social security
- social welfare
- unemployment benefit
- welfare
- welfare state
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Examples from literature
- If the claim is approved, payment is made through the local union to the legal claimants.The majority of the unions paying disability benefits, as a precautionary measure specify the time within which claims for disability must be filed.
- It is perfectly clear that the only pretexts for giving this claimant a pension are military service, old age, and poverty.
- Kings have rarely been able to abstain from acts of severity against those who might become claimants to the throne.
- The British claimants of the territory, finding that American immigration was increasing, began to bring settlers from the Red River of the North.
- The claimants were the reigning King, and the mother, brother, and sister of the deceased widow.