claimant

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

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈkleɪ.mənt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪmənt

claimant (plural claimants)

1. One who claims; one who makes a claim.
   • 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

     “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.

• non-claimant, nonclaimant
• pro-claimant

• calamint