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Verb: lay claim
  1. Demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to
    "He laid claim his suitcases at the airline counter"
    - claim, arrogate

Derived forms: laying claim, lays claim, laid claim

Type of: bespeak, call for, quest, request

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lawyer-client relation
lax
laxation
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laxity
laxly
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lay figure
lay hands on
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lay over