to admit a claim

  • 1admit — ad·mit vb ad·mit·ted, ad·mit·ting vt 1: to concede as true or valid: make an admission of 2: to allow to be entered or offered admitted the document into evidence admit a will to probate vi: to make acknowledgment …

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  • 2claim — verb. There are several areas of difficulty with this word. The first concerns claim + that, and the second claim + to. The third concerns the expression to claim responsibility. 1. claim + that. In this construction, claim should not be used as… …

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  • 3claim — claim1 [ kleım ] verb *** ▸ 1 say something is true ▸ 2 say something is yours ▸ 3 when something kills someone ▸ 4 need attention/time ▸ 5 win prize in sport 1. ) transitive to say that something is true, even though there is no definite proof:… …

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  • 4claim — v 1. demand, require, command, have rights to, deserve, be entitled to, lay claim to, pretend, Sl. have dibs on; expropriate, requisition, commandeer, exact. 2. assert, declare, proclaim, predicate, allege, aver, asseverate; maintain, hold,… …

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  • 5claim responsibility for —    to admit to    A usage of terrorists, especially in Northern Ireland, who saw murder and arson as creditworthy:     He turned on the radio... is just coming in of a bomb explosion... no one has yet claimed responsibility. (McCrum, 1991) …

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  • 6List of patent claim types — This is a list of special types of claims that may be found in a patent or patent application. For explanations about independent and dependent claims and about the different categories of claims, i.e. product or apparatus claims (claims… …

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  • 7Security for a claim — (in Russia) the acceptance of measures, ensuring realities of execution of the future court verdict or arbitration . Security for a claim is a warranty of protection of claimants interests. The court or arbitration court admits and accepts the… …

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  • 8make no claim to be something — phrase to admit that you do not have a particular quality or ability I make no claim to be knowledgeable on the subject. Thesaurus: to try to show that an idea or belief is wrongsynonym Main entry: claim …

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  • 9make no claim to be something — to admit that you do not have a particular quality or ability I make no claim to be knowledgeable on the subject …

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  • 10The Church —     The Church     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Church     The term church (Anglo Saxon, cirice, circe; Modern German, Kirche; Sw., Kyrka) is the name employed in the Teutonic languages to render the Greek ekklesia (ecclesia), the term by which… …

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