claimable meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

claimable

adj

Etymology From claim + -able.

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.
If the insured party undertakes repair work himself or does it by independent sources this is not claimable from the insurance company.2005 United Arab Emirates Court of Cassation Judgments 1998 - 2003

noun

Etymology From claim + -able.

Something that can be claimed.

The A.D.A. figures utilized in this study include the claimables for state aid plus the nonclaimables.1963, Leo Cohen, Comparative Fiscal Capacity and Tax Effort of Units of Government in Madison and St. Claire Counties, Illinois, 1950-1960:
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.2008, Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer, The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit, →ISBN, page 221:

1 more example

But it does not follow that there were no true claimables.2009, Hent de Vries, Religion: Beyond a Concept, →ISBN, page 48: