claimable

claimable

English

Etymology

claim +‎ -able

Adjective

claimable (not comparable)

1. Able to be claimed.
   • 1845 The New Statistical Account of Scotland

     The existence of a legally claimable provision will, it is to be feared, tend everywhere more or less to produce its usual pernicious effects on the natural benevolence and and moral independence of the people.

   • 2005 United Arab Emirates Court of Cassation Judgments 1998 - 2003

     If the insured party undertakes repair work himself or does it by independent sources this is not claimable from the insurance company.

Noun

claimable (plural claimables)

1. Something that can be claimed.
   • 1963, Leo Cohen, Comparative Fiscal Capacity and Tax Effort of Units of Government in in Madison and St. Claire Counties, Illinois, 1950-1960:

     The A.D.A. figures utilized in this study include the claimables for state aid plus the nonclaimables.

   • 2008, Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer, The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit, →ISBN, page 221:

     So, for example, if the conditional and negation introduced in terms of pragmatic incompatibility really are a conditional and negation — letting us say that two claimables are inferentially related as premise and conclusion, or that they are incompatible — then what those locutions work on must be genuine propositional contents — what appears embedded as the antecedent of the conditional, or is negated.

   • 2009, Hent de Vries, Religion: Beyond a Concept, →ISBN:

     But it does not follow that there were no true claimables.