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Definition of assuming conjunction from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

  

assuming

 conjunction
conjunction
NAmE//əˈsumɪŋ//
 
assuming (that)
 
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used to suppose that something is true so that you can talk about what the results might be Assuming (that) he's still alive, how old would he be now? I hope to go to college next year, assuming that I pass my exams. AWL Collocationsassumeassume verb
  • commonly, generally
  • erroneously, incorrectly, mistakenly
  • safely
  • implicitly, tacitly
Contrary to what is generally assumed by theoretical models, our results demonstrate that… We can safely assume that emissions from developing countries will keep rising as economic activity grows. This approach implicitly assumes that medication use is constant during the assessment period.
  • be reasonable to, be safe to
  • be unreasonable to
It is reasonable to assume that those with a continuous work history should have a higher commitment to the labor market. On the basis of available evidence, it would not be unreasonable to assume that Chinese writing began in the seventeenth century B.C.assumption noun
  • implicit, underlying
  • valid
This implicit assumption is rarely tested. There seem to be some underlying assumptions, but there does not seem to be any evidence.
  • reexamine, test
  • satisfy, validate
  • challenge, question
  • contradict, violate
The first experiment was designed to test the assumptions of these hypotheses. Our findings challenge an important assumption shared by all of the theories we have examined.
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