Definition of "assumptions" []

• Plural form of assumption. (noun)

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• "The degree to which accommodations are made through the design and construction of the SR 520 project deeply depend on certain assumptions regarding light rail for the corridor that have not yet been made by the City or the region."
• "In December 2008, as the financial crisis deepened, TFG established a reserve against potential unrealized losses on its holdings, to reflect Tetragon Financial Management's "more pessimistic set of short-term assumptions.""
• "Though Roosevelt, like most Anglo-Saxon Americans of that time period, still held to certain assumptions of and prejudices against blacks, the fact that he was willing to break bread with a black man – and that his family were present as well – was astounding in a time period where the advances and tentative healing made during Reconstruction were receding to the point of memory."