laying claim

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laying claim - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  laying claim
      n 1: the act of taking possession of or power over something;
           "his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in
           Cuba"; "the Nazi assumption of power in 1934"; "he acquired
           all the company's assets for ten million dollars and the
           assumption of the company's debts" [syn: assumption,
           laying claim]