One who claims; one who makes a claim.
Used in a Sentence
claimant
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for claimant.
Editorial note
The percentage of cases my dad's worked where the claimant was not very obviously faking is vanishingly small.
Examples16
Definitions3
Parts of speech1
Quick take
One who claims; one who makes a claim.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of claimant gathered in one view.
(law) The party who initiates a lawsuit before a court.
(UK) A person receiving money from the government, in a form of unemployment benefits, disability benefits or similar.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for claimant.
noun
One who claims; one who makes a claim.
noun
(law) The party who initiates a lawsuit before a court.
noun
(UK) A person receiving money from the government, in a form of unemployment benefits, disability benefits or similar.
Example sentences
The percentage of cases my dad's worked where the claimant was not very obviously faking is vanishingly small.
So why word it like users cannot defend against Facebook while Facebook doesn't intend to be a claimant?
With the web as the forum, the claimant can also shop forums to find the most sympathetic court available.
According to those reports, there was no mechanism for further appeal if the Content ID claimant denied the initial appeal.
The intended audience, other artists, don't understand what rights they or the claimant actually have, either.
The fact that no proof can be given either way is a failure of the design process, not of the claimant.
There are perhaps an infinite number of possible solutions, each a claimant upon our wager.
First, I think it's important to note that as the original claimant here, the onus is on you to prove your claim, not on me to disprove it.
Though in some situations, like if it were easy for the claimant to join the earlier lawsuit, this may not be so.
Regardless, it's proper for the claimant to provide data to support their claim.
If GM successfully defended a particular injury claim, that ended the case for that claimant but had no preclusive effect on other, similar claims.
When an employer appeals a Labor Commissioner ruling and loses, the employer gets stuck paying the attorneys' fees of the prevailing claimant on the appeal.
Quote examples
Deciding whether or not a claimant "has a case" isn't even the jury's job.
(Or "getting fonesnoped" if you happen to be the claimant).
I did not intend to cast aspersions on the claimant; I certainly apologize if I caused offense, though you seem to have taken it in good spirits regardless:) Back to the topic at hand: It sounds like you probably do consider a substantially narrower class of things "type errors" than I do.
So, wow, the claimant here says, in effect, "we have been using 'zen' since 2007 and so we have a right to claim this exclusively as our own." And it then proceeds to file formal proceedings against all sort of other companies to force them to spend large sums of money or else give up using their marks that share only a common prefix.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use claimant in a sentence?
The percentage of cases my dad's worked where the claimant was not very obviously faking is vanishingly small.
What does claimant mean?
One who claims; one who makes a claim.
What part of speech is claimant?
claimant is commonly used as noun.