"lay claim" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lays claim",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laying claim",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laid claim",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laid claim",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lay<,,laid> claim"
      },
      "expansion": "lay claim (third-person singular simple present lays claim, present participle laying claim, simple past and past participle laid claim)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Georgian terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant script codes",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Spencer University lays claim to the recently published discovery."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, The Guardian",
          "text": "Argentina also lays claim to what is now Queen Elizabeth Land, as well as to other South Atlantic dependencies including South Georgia and the uninhabited South Sandwich Islands.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To say that something belongs to oneself."
      ],
      "id": "en-lay_claim-en-verb-9lP2Jtm-",
      "links": [
        [
          "belongs",
          "belongs"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "put facts on the ground"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "stake a claim"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "zh",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "say that something belongs to oneself",
          "word": "要求承認"
        },
        {
          "code": "zh",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yāoqiú chéngrèn",
          "sense": "say that something belongs to oneself",
          "word": "要求承认"
        },
        {
          "code": "zh",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "say that something belongs to oneself",
          "word": "請求權利"
        },
        {
          "code": "zh",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "qǐngqiú quánlì",
          "sense": "say that something belongs to oneself",
          "word": "请求权利"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "say that something belongs to oneself",
          "word": "vaatia itselleen"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "say that something belongs to oneself",
          "word": "vaatia"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "miḳutvneba",
          "sense": "say that something belongs to oneself",
          "word": "მიკუთვნება"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "say that something belongs to oneself",
          "word": "Anspruch erheben"
        },
        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "likvóa ba'alút",
          "sense": "say that something belongs to oneself",
          "word": "לקבוע בעלות"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lay claim"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lays claim",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laying claim",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laid claim",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laid claim",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lay<,,laid> claim"
      },
      "expansion": "lay claim (third-person singular simple present lays claim, present participle laying claim, simple past and past participle laid claim)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "put facts on the ground"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Georgian terms with redundant script codes"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Spencer University lays claim to the recently published discovery."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, The Guardian",
          "text": "Argentina also lays claim to what is now Queen Elizabeth Land, as well as to other South Atlantic dependencies including South Georgia and the uninhabited South Sandwich Islands.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To say that something belongs to oneself."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "belongs",
          "belongs"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "stake a claim"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "zh",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "say that something belongs to oneself",
      "word": "要求承認"
    },
    {
      "code": "zh",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yāoqiú chéngrèn",
      "sense": "say that something belongs to oneself",
      "word": "要求承认"
    },
    {
      "code": "zh",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "say that something belongs to oneself",
      "word": "請求權利"
    },
    {
      "code": "zh",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "qǐngqiú quánlì",
      "sense": "say that something belongs to oneself",
      "word": "请求权利"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "say that something belongs to oneself",
      "word": "vaatia itselleen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "say that something belongs to oneself",
      "word": "vaatia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "miḳutvneba",
      "sense": "say that something belongs to oneself",
      "word": "მიკუთვნება"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "say that something belongs to oneself",
      "word": "Anspruch erheben"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "likvóa ba'alút",
      "sense": "say that something belongs to oneself",
      "word": "לקבוע בעלות"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lay claim"
}