Scrabble?! CLAIM

Definitions of CLAIM in various dictionaries:

noun - an assertion of a right (as to money or property)

noun - an assertion that something is true or factual

noun - demand for something as rightful or due

noun - an informal right to something

noun - an established or recognized right

noun - a demand especially in the phrase "the call of duty"

verb - assert or affirm strongly

verb - demand as being one's due or property

verb - ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example

verb - lay claim to

verb - take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs

To demand or ask for as one’s own or one’s due; assert one’s right to: claim a reward.

To take in a violent manner as if by right: a hurricane that claimed two lives.

To state to be true, especially when open to question; assert or maintain: claimed he had won the race; a candidate claiming many supporters.

To deserve or call for; require: problems that claim her attention.

A demand for something as rightful or due.

A basis for demanding something; a title or right.

Something claimed in a formal or legal manner, especially a tract of public land staked out by a miner or homesteader.

A demand for payment in accordance with an insurance policy or other formal arrangement.

The sum of money demanded.

The central meaning shared by these nouns is “a legitimate or asserted right to demand something as one’s rightful due”: had a strong legal claim to the property; makes no pretense to scholarliness; pretensions to the chairmanship unjustified in every particular; has no title to our thanks.

verb - to demand as one's due