claimant
Americannoun
noun
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a person who makes a claim
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Formerly called: plaintiff. a person who brings a civil action in a court of law Compare defendant
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Claimant numbers, for PIP and Universal Credit payments, have increased significantly in the four years since the pandemic, driven by an increase in those claiming for mental and behavioural problems as their main condition.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2025
What truly fascinates Touchet is the key witness for the Claimant, a former servant and employee of the Tichborne family, Andrew Bogle.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023
The novel has its origins in the case of the Tichborne Claimant.
From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2018
Mr. Sinclair and his two siblings were also skeptical of the fee the company, Legal Claimant Services, a division of Keane, was seeking: 36 percent of the account’s value.
From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2013
Mr. Foster's widow had specimens of Arthur Orton's writing, and other mementoes of his two years' service among them, and she unhesitatingly identified a portrait of the Claimant as that of the same man.
From Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton by Anonymous
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