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claimant

/ˈkleɪmənt/

B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

Law noun

The party that initiates arbitral proceedings by filing a request or notice of arbitration.

The claimant bore the burden of proving that the respondent had repudiated the contract.

Similar: complainant

Topic: Arbitration in Legal English

Business noun

A person who submits a demand for payment under an insurance policy.

The claimant failed to disclose the earlier fire, so the insurer repudiated liability.

Topic: Insurance & risk in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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