Synonyms:
premise, premiss, assumption
Meaning: 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 to play"
Synonyms:
assumption, supposition, supposal
Meaning: a hypothesis that is taken for granted; "any society is built upon certain assumptions"
Synonyms:
assumption, laying_claim
Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
Arbitrary assumption of power
The episode is, by assumption, past.
One assumption you make I should like to contest
It had already become involved with the assumption of the state debts.
Further debate took place, but without shaking the firmness of the opposition to the assumption of the state debts.
Far worse than self-consciousness through fear of doing poorly is self-consciousness through assumption of doing well.
The story of a "nude woman," etc., is pure fiction, and that the two murders were caused by unbelief is mere assumption.
The form of the assumption differed somewhat from the proposal of Hamilton, but it accomplished the result at which he aimed.
If we are to avoid a perfectly gratuitous assumption, we must dispense with the subject as one of the actual ingredients of the world.
Therefore, the very next time that the girl pleaded with her to make Kenneth her heir, she said, with a clever assumption of resignation: