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US
/əˈsəmpʃən/
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[ UK /ɐsˈʌmpʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɐsˈʌmpʃən/ ]
NOUN
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the act of taking possession of or power over something
he acquired all the company's assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the company's debts
his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba
the Nazi assumption of power in 1934 -
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 -
the act of assuming or taking for granted
your assumption that I would agree was unwarranted -
audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
he despised them for their presumptuousness -
a hypothesis that is taken for granted
any society is built upon certain assumptions
How To Use assumption In A Sentence
- Neither of them sugar-coat the ups and down of working in the industry, but they will open your eyes a great deal about the false assumptions that you're making.
- Words are confusing, but they're nothing compared to non-words, mainly because non-words lead to rash assumptions and misunderstandings.
- Hey, I'm all for cool action scenes in my SciFi, but -- if I may clarify the author's assumption -- stories that include inter-character relationships don't "alienate" me. Is Science Fiction Becoming 'Feminized'?
- Much of this branch of your argument proceeds from unstated assumptions about the content of the ‘once and for all’ rule.
- For it is an unexamined assumption that equality must be connected with representation. Times, Sunday Times
- The term highlights the assumption that individuals act within a social context, that this context is not reducible to individual acts, and, most significantly, that the social context is not necessarily or wholly imposed. THE MORAL DIMENSION
- But hey, I guess if we are operating under the assumption that soccer fans revel in unfairness at the hands of a central, arbitrary power, they they will probably love this change. The Volokh Conspiracy » How Jonathan Adler Gets It Wrong, and Soccer Gets It Right:
- In modern epistemology, or theory of knowledge, certain assumptions are common.
- We should also not make the rather simplistic assumption that co-residence implies a strong bond between relatives.
- We are working on the assumption that everyone invited will turn up.