claimant
IPA: kɫˈeɪmʌnt
noun
- One who claims; one who makes a claim.
- (UK) A person receiving money from the government, in a form of unemployment benefits, disability benefits or similar.
- (law) The party who initiates a lawsuit before a court.
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Examples of "claimant" in Sentences
- The Claimant must provide the evidence.
- The claimant has the right to deny a subpoena.
- The claimant denied this as did four of the prostitutes.
- The chair was defective and broke, injuring the claimant.
- The burden of proof is upon the claimant, not the arbiter.
- Tatham was the claimant and heir to the fortune of the deceased.
- The burden of proof lays squarely on the shoulders of the claimant.
- Reducing the amount of paperwork needed by the Claimant and Council.
- The issue was then who could claim the brooch the claimant or the defendants.
- The issue was then who could claim the brooch the claimant or the defendents.