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Etymology

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From pro- +‎ claimant.

Adjective

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pro-claimant (comparative more pro-claimant, superlative most pro-claimant)

  1. In favor of a claimant or claimants.
    • 2014, Janette Turner Hospital, Claimant, →ISBN:
      One faction, vehemently pro-claimant, loathed the Vanderbilts on principle for their arrogant refusal to believe that a man who actually worked for a living could be one of them: a man who worked as a butcher – a butcher! – a man not only engaged in physical labour but physical labour of the lowest and most degraded sort, the kind that splashed the worker with blood ang guts.