lay claim
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lay claim (third-person singular simple present lays claim, present participle laying claim, simple past and past participle laid claim)
- To say that something belongs to oneself.
- Synonym: stake a claim
- Spencer University lays claim to the recently published discovery.
- 2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, The Guardian[1]:
- 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.
Translations edit
say that something belongs to oneself
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