Assumption (Noun)
Meaning 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".
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 2
A statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn; "on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not play".
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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- The company's business plan was based on the assumption that the market would continue to grow rapidly.
- The researcher made the assumption that the sample was representative of the larger population.
- The police launched a search for the missing hiker on the assumption that she was still alive.
- The economic model relied on the assumption that people would act rationally in their own best interests.
- The emergency services responded to the emergency call on the assumption that it was a genuine distress call.
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Meaning 3
The act of assuming or taking for granted; "your assumption that I would agree was unwarranted".
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 4
Audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness".
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Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
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Meaning 5
(Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended.
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Nouns denoting natural events.
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Meaning 6
A hypothesis that is taken for granted; "any society is built upon certain assumptions".
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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
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- Base
- Presumption
- Self-evident Truth
- Groundwork
- Constatation
- Foundation
- Fundament
- Cornerstone
- Precondition
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Meaning 7
Celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.