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unclaim

unclaim verb: to cancel one's claim to.

Verb

unclaim (third-person singular simple present unclaims, present participle unclaiming, simple past and past participle unclaimed)

  1. (transitive) To cancel one's claim to.
    • This dashboard is useful for looking at the task workload by assignee. Alerts can be set up to notify when a bottleneck for an assignee occurs so that you could configure an action (such as reassigning or unclaiming the task) to quicken the resolution of the task and allow the process to continue.2015, Matjaz B. Juric, Sven Bernhardt, Hajo Normann, Design Principles for Process-driven Architectures Using Oracle BPM and SOA Suite 12c

Forms of unclaim

third-person singular presentunclaims
present participleunclaiming
past participleunclaimed
pastunclaimed

Origin of unclaim

From un- + claim.

Questions about unclaim

What does unclaim mean?
Unclaim means to cancel one's claim to.
What part of speech is unclaim?
Unclaim is a verb.
What is the past tense of unclaim?
The past tense of unclaim is unclaimed.

Words near unclaim in the dictionary

  1. uncivilly
  2. uncivilness
  3. UNCK WT
  4. unclad
  5. uncladded
  6. unclaim
  7. unclaimable
  8. unclaimed
  9. unclaiming
  10. unclaims
  11. unclammy

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