stake a/ claim

stake a/your claim

to make it clear that you want something, and that you think you deserve to get it (often + to ) Descendants of the original settlers are going to court to stake their claim to the land. In order to stake a claim for world prominence in astronomy, the university is building a huge new optical telescope.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Kolos	KO-losh	Hungarian
Landebert	-	Ancient Germanic
Shiori	shee-o-ṙee	Japanese
JÁNos	YAH-nosh	Hungarian
Oleksandr	-	Ukrainian
Wassim	-	Arabic