claimant

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman clamant, present participle of the verb clamer and its variants, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin clāmō (“to cry out”).

Noun

claimant (plural claimants)

1. One who claims; one who makes a claim.
   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Tremarn Case‎^[1]:

     “Two or three months more went by ; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”

2. (UK) A person receiving money from the government, in a form of unemployment benefits, disability benefits or similar.
3. (law) The party who initiates a lawsuit before a court.

Translations

one who claims

• Arabic: مُدَّعٍ m (muddaʕin), مُدَّعِيَة f (muddaʕiya)
• Bulgarian: ищец (bg) (ištec)
• Finnish: vaatija (fi); kantaja (fi) (law)
• French: prétendant (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: pretendente (it) m, richiedente (it) m, rivendicatore m
• Spanish: actor (es)
• Tagalog: naghahabol

person receiving money from the government

• Italian: istante (it) m, richieditore m, richiedente (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

party who initiates a lawsuit — see plaintiff

Anagrams

• calamint