The spelling premiss is also used in British English for meaning 2. 在英国英语中拼写形式premiss亦用于义项2。
1
[N-PLURAL 复数名词](企业或机构使用的)房屋及土地;经营场所;办公场所 The
premises of a business or an institution are all the buildings and land that it occupies in one place.
2
[N-COUNT 可数名词]前提 A
premise is something that you suppose is true and that you use as a basis for developing an idea.
The premise is that schools will work harder to improve if they must compete...
前提是,如果各学校必须参与竞争的话,就会更加努力。
The programme started from the premise that men and women are on equal terms in this society.
这个项目是以这个社会男女平等为前提的。