lay claim

English

Verb

lay claim (third-person singular simple present lays claim, present participle laying claim, simple past and past participle laid claim)

1. 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

say that something belongs to oneself

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 要求承認, 要求承认 (yāoqiú chéngrèn), 請求權利, 请求权利 (qǐngqiú quánlì)

• Finnish: vaatia itselleen, vaatia (fi)
• Georgian: მიკუთვნება (miḳutvneba)
• German: Anspruch erheben
• Hebrew: לקבוע בעלות (likvóa ba'alút)

See also

• put facts on the ground