What part of speech is assumption?

Assumption can be categorized as a noun.

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Noun

What does assumption mean?

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Noun

assumption - a hypothesis that is taken for granted; "any society is built upon certain assumptions"
assumption - 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"
assumption - the act of assuming or taking for granted; "your assumption that I would agree was unwarranted"
Assumption - (Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended
Assumption - 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
assumption - 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"
assumption - audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness"

Examples of assumption

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1. noun His assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba.
2. noun The Nazi assumption of power in 1934.
3. noun He acquired all the company's assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the company's debts.
4. noun Your assumption that I would agree was unwarranted.
5. noun On the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play.
6. noun In my opinion, we should show CRRA a copy of the LOI with the assumption that the Development Agreement is attached.
7. noun Basic to the argument is the assumption that the rules in question are present in the language.
8. noun What he said bears out my assumption.
9. noun Your assumption that his death was an accident seems to be wrong.
10. noun She put on an assumption of ignorance.
11. noun The facts don't correspond with your assumption.
12. noun Only the assumption that the reader - I better say: the prospective reader, because for the moment there is not the slightest prospect, that my writing could see the lights of publicity, - unless it miraculously left our endangered fortress Europe and brought a hint of the secrets of our loneliness to those outside; - I beg to be allowed to begin anew: only because I anticipate the wish to be told casually about the who and what of the writer, I send some few notes on my own individuum out before these openings, - of course not without the awareness that exactly by doing so I might provoke doubts in the reader, that he is in the right hands, which is to say: if I, from all my being, am the right man for a task to which maybe the heart pulls me more than any qualifying relation in character.
13. noun How much confidence exists that this assumption is correct?
14. noun We can't make that assumption.
15. noun Israel's security policy cannot rely on the assumption that the dictators of the Arab countries will retain power forever.
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noun
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.
Your assumption that I would agree was unwarranted.
On the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play.
In my opinion, we should show CRRA a copy of the LOI with the assumption that the Development Agreement is attached.
Basic to the argument is the assumption that the rules in question are present in the language.
What he said bears out my assumption.
Your assumption that his death was an accident seems to be wrong.
She put on an assumption of ignorance.
The facts don't correspond with your assumption.
Only the assumption that the reader - I better say: the prospective reader, because for the moment there is not the slightest prospect, that my writing could see the lights of publicity, - unless it miraculously left our endangered fortress Europe and brought a hint of the secrets of our loneliness to those outside; - I beg to be allowed to begin anew: only because I anticipate the wish to be told casually about the who and what of the writer, I send some few notes on my own individuum out before these openings, - of course not without the awareness that exactly by doing so I might provoke doubts in the reader, that he is in the right hands, which is to say: if I, from all my being, am the right man for a task to which maybe the heart pulls me more than any qualifying relation in character.
How much confidence exists that this assumption is correct?
We can't make that assumption.
Israel's security policy cannot rely on the assumption that the dictators of the Arab countries will retain power forever.

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