Definition: 1. A statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn. 2. A hypothesis that is taken for granted. 3. The act of taking possession of or power over something. 4. Audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to. 5. The act of assuming or taking for granted.
Use 'assumption' in a sentence:
1. Unless you integrate your reading of graphics with the text, you may make a wrong assumption.
2. You would be making an assumption that's not based on any fact that you could report.
3. They embrace priorities and follow procedures by instinct and assumption rather than by explicit decision, which means that they've created a culture.
4. The21st century will overturn many of our basic assumptions about economic life.
5. Yet Rampino and others question one of the traditionalists' basic assumption: the periodic occurrence of glaciation throughout Earth's history.
6. Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument relies?
7. This assumption misses a significant difference between the two disciplines.
8. They have taken a wrong turning in their assumption that all men and women think alike.
9. It was impossible to make assumptions about people's reactions.
10. An assumption for driverless cars was introduced earlier this year.
11. We are working on the assumption that it was a gas explosion.
12. The regular police have missed this paint smear or made some sort of unwarranted assumption about it.
13. The new governor's assumption of office will take place next Tuesday.
14. We mistook assumption that the price would fall.
15. Allen's contribution was to take an assumption we all share—that because we are not robots we therefore control our thoughts—and reveal its erroneous nature.
16. The theory is bottomed on questionable assumptions.
17. The assumption is that even if this DNA doesn't make up any of the genes, it must serve some other purpose.
18. This is an invalid assumption.
19. Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
20. Their reasoning was based on a set of unstated assumptions.
21. Watson makes the assumption that muscular activity is equivalent to thinking.
22. New research in Greenland has put this assumption into question.
23. This myth leads to the assumption that a company can simply lower its labor costs by cutting wages.
24. A reasonable assumption—don't families struggle to avoid nursing homes and suffer real guilt if they can't?
25. Economists are working on the assumption of an interest rate cut.
26. Recent evidence of subtle interactions between earthquakes may overturn this assumption, however.
27. The connection between the assumption and the question or alleged consequent is remote.
28. This assumption played a considerable part in increasing the social acceptability of divorce.
29. There has been this assumption they did, and people have built canoes to re-create those early voyages based on that assumption.
30. This assumption will be justified by the work of the builder.
31. One warning: unless you integrate your reading of graphics with the text, you may make a wrong assumption.
32. His assumption proved to be wrong.
33. We must not act on assumptions.
34. Until recently, the assumption has been that cellulose would take over from sugar and starch as the feedstock for making biofuels.
35. One also has to make the assumption that hands were stenciled palm downward—a left hand stenciled palm upward might of course look as if it were a right hand.
36. His assumption of office was welcomed by everyone.
37. Put your best foot forward and work on the assumption that there is an acceptable solution to every problem you are likely to face.
38. Compulsory education laws predicated in part on the assumption that a child's emotional value made child labor taboo.
39. We are working on the assumption that everyone invited will turn up.
40. This ridiculous theory is based on a series of wrong assumptions.
41. Latest evidence of subtle interactions between earthquakes may subvert this assumption, however.
42. Implicit in his speech was the assumption that they were guilty.
43. There is little evidence to support many of Mr Will's cheerful assumptions.
44. Dr Subroto questioned the scientific assumption on which the global warming theory is based.
45. The whole argument rests on a false assumption.
46. His actions were based on a false assumption.
47. The government have retained the support which greeted their assumption of power last March.
48. We shall have to explicate its basic assumptions before we can assess its implications.
49. The underlying assumption is that the amount of money available is limited.
50. His views are grounded on the assumption that all people are equal.
51. We need to challenge some of the basic assumptions of Western philosophy.
52. Such a view rests on a number of incorrect assumptions.
53. Traditional economic analysis is premised on the assumption that more is better.
54. The only safe assumption is that the world's financial markets will have to find solutions themselves.
