Words & TermsPolitics and public life
ambit claim
An opening industrial-relations claim deliberately pitched beyond the expected settlement.
In a sentence
The union opened negotiations with an ambit claim.
Where it came from
The Australian National Dictionary Centre treats ambit claim as a specifically Australian industrial-relations expression, recorded from the 1920s.
- Initial era
- 1950–1999
- Where used
- Australian use; no narrower regional pattern established