claimancy

English

Noun

claimancy (plural claimancies)

1. The state or quality of being a claimant.
2. (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.