claimant

Etymology

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

noun

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

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