lay claim

Verb

Meaning

demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

claim arrogate bluff take act fish jive affect assume stake fool cheat pretend allege profess
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Antonyms

own professional admit acknowledge assent uncover
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Hypernyms

request quest bespeak call for ask for

Hyponyms

requisition assign pretend arrogate

Examples

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations. Alva Myrdal

Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession. Phil Plait

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property. Chuck Palahniuk

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. Carl Jung

I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense. Emily Dickinson

If history is the working out of a more moral purpose in time, then those who lay claim to that purpose are by that fact the predilect agents of history. Eric Wolf

Close letter words and terms

lay chaplain lay chase lay chilly lay clergyman lay clerk lay concrete