| query | If you make an a_________ that something is true or will happen, you accept that it is true or will happen, often without any real proof .If you make an assumption that something is true or will happen, you accept that it is true or will happen, often without any real proof . They have taken a wrong turning in their assumption that all men and women think alike. ...the scientific assumption on which the global warming theory is based. Economists are working on the assumption of an interest rate cut. |
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| word | assumption |
| full-definition | noun If you make an assumption that something is true or will happen, you accept that it is true or will happen, often without any real proof . They have taken a wrong turning in their assumption that all men and women think alike. ...the scientific assumption on which the global warming theory is based. Economists are working on the assumption of an interest rate cut. Someone's assumption of power or responsibility is their taking of it. The government have retained the support which greeted their assumption of power last March. |
| inflections | assumptions |
| cefr-level | B2 |
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