assumability
mə adjective
capable of being assumed, as an office or an obligation: Assumable mortgages are hard to find these days.
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| —vb | |
| 1. | (may take a clause as object) to take for granted; accept without proof; suppose: to assume that someone is sane |
| 2. | to take upon oneself; undertake or take on or over (a position, responsibility, etc): to assume office |
| 3. | to pretend to; feign: he assumed indifference, although the news affected him deeply |
| 4. | to take or put on; adopt: the problem assumed gigantic proportions |
| 5. | to appropriate or usurp (power, control, etc); arrogate: the revolutionaries assumed control of the city |
| 6. | Christianity (of God) to take up (the soul of a believer) into heaven |
| [C15: from Latin assūmere to take up, from sūmere to take up, from | |
| as'sumable | |
| —adj | |
| as'sumer | |
| —n | |
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