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lay claim

lay claim verb: to state that something belongs to oneself.

Verb

lay claim (third-person singular simple present lays claim, present participle laying claim, simple past and past participle laid claim)

  1. (idiomatic, usually, with-to) To state that something belongs to oneself.
    • Spencer University lays claim to the recently published discovery.
    • Argentina also lays claim to what is now Queen Elizabeth Land, as well as to other South Atlantic dependencies including South Georgia and the uninhabited South Sandwich Islands.2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    stake a claim

lay claim meaning in Tamil and Kannada

lay claim in Tamil

உரிமை கோரல்

lay claim in Kannada

ಹಕ್ಕು ಕೇಳು, ಹಕ್ಕು ಪ್ರಕಟಿಸು

Synonyms of lay claim

Forms of lay claim

third-person singular presentlays claim
present participlelaying claim
past participlelaid claim
pastlaid claim

Questions about lay claim

What does lay claim mean?
Lay claim means to state that something belongs to oneself.
What is lay claim in Tamil?
Lay claim in Tamil is உரிமை கோரல். See Lay claim meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lay claim?
Lay claim is a verb.
What is the past tense of lay claim?
The past tense of lay claim is laid claim.

Words near lay claim in the dictionary

  1. lay bye
  2. lay byes
  3. lay bys
  4. lay chase
  5. lay chilly
  6. lay claim
  7. lay clerk
  8. lay clerks
  9. lay day
  10. lay days
  11. lay doggo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lay claim (page history and authors); lay claim (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lay claim (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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