claimable

English

Etymology

From claim +‎ -able.

Adjective

claimable (not comparable)

1. Able to be claimed.
   • 1845 The New Statistical Account of Scotland

     The existence of a legally claimable provision will, it is to be feared, tend everywhere more or less to produce its usual pernicious effects on the natural benevolence and moral independence of the people.

   • 2005 United Arab Emirates Court of Cassation Judgments 1998 - 2003

     If the insured party undertakes repair work himself or does it by independent sources this is not claimable from the insurance company.

Derived terms

• nonclaimable
• unclaimable

 

Noun

claimable (plural claimables)

1. Something that can be claimed.
   • 1963, Leo Cohen, Comparative Fiscal Capacity and Tax Effort of Units of Government in in Madison and St. Claire Counties, Illinois, 1950-1960:

     The A.D.A. figures utilized in this study include the claimables for state aid plus the nonclaimables.

   • 2008, Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer, The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit, →ISBN, page 221:

     So, for example, if the conditional and negation introduced in terms of pragmatic incompatibility really are a conditional and negation — letting us say that two claimables are inferentially related as premise and conclusion, or that they are incompatible — then what those locutions work on must be genuine propositional contents — what appears embedded as the antecedent of the conditional, or is negated.

   • 2009, Hent de Vries, Religion: Beyond a Concept, →ISBN, page 48:

     But it does not follow that there were no true claimables.