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" पर्याय: laying claim,
the act of assuming or taking for granted; "your assumption that I would agree was unwarranted"
audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness" पर्याय: presumption, presumptuousness, effrontery,
a hypothesis that is taken for granted; "any society is built upon certain assumptions" पर्याय: supposition, supposal,
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" पर्याय: premise, premiss,