Usually means: Claims something without providing proof.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. alleges: Merriam-Webster
  2. alleges: Collins English Dictionary
  3. alleges: Vocabulary.com
  4. Alleges, alleges: Wordnik
  5. alleges: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. alleges: Wiktionary
  7. alleges: Dictionary.com
  8. alleges: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. alleges: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. alleges: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. alleges: Legal dictionary

(Note: See allege as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (allege)

verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To state under oath, to plead.
verb:  (archaic) To cite or quote an author or his work for or against.
verb:  (transitive) To adduce (something) as a reason, excuse, support etc.
verb:  (transitive) To make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof.
verb:  (obsolete) To lighten, diminish.
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