claimancy
English
editNoun
editclaimancy (plural claimancies)
- The state or quality of being a claimant.
- (military) A branch of the navy responsible for maintaining infrastructure, usually corresponding roughly to a command grouping.
- 1975, Navy Supply Corps Newsletter, page 6:
- He has effective authority to move his billets around within his claimancy as necessary to meet needs.
- 1992, Naval School, Civil Engineer Corps Officers, Guide to public work management, page 2-15:
- One the most important roles of the claimancy is the management of the financial resources provided to the activities for operations and maintenance.
- 1994, Newsletter - Volume 57, page 3:
- Within the NAVSUP claimancy (which is entirely within the Navy's infrastructure) almost two- thirds of our staffing and workload is directly linked to force size.
- 2008, Lawrence R. Jones, Jerry L. McCaffery, Budgeting, Financial Management, and Acquisition Reform in the U.S. Department of Defense, →ISBN, page 179:
- Since, for example, IT funding issues are not limited to the Pacific Fleet claimancy (CPF) but affect the navy as a whole, not only are CPF activities free to comment, but other claimancies also are free to comment on the issue.