claimant

claimant

English

Etymology

Old French and Anglo-Norman clamant, present participle of the verb clamer and its variants, from Latin clāmō (“to cry out”).

Noun

claimant (plural claimants)

1. One who claims; one who makes a claim.
   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Tremarn Case‎:

     “Two or three months more went by ; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”

2. (Britain) A person receiving money from the government, in a form of unemployment benefits, disability benefits or similar.
3. (law) The party who initiates a lawsuit before a court.

Translations

one who claims

Arabic: مُدَّعٍ‎ m (muddaʿin), مُدَّعِيَة‎ f (muddaʿiya) Bulgarian: ищец (bg) (ištec) Finnish: vaatija (fi); kantaja (fi) (law) French: prétendant (fr)

Italian: pretendente (it) m, richiedente (it) m, rivendicatore m Spanish: actor (es) Tagalog: naghahabol

person receiving money from the government

Italian: istante (it) m, richieditore m, richiedente (it)

party who initiates a lawsuit — see plaintiff

Anagrams

• calamint