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Assert one's right to or ownership of, as in “What claim lays she to thee?” (Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors , 3:2). [Late 1500s] Also see stake a claim .

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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