Definition of "presumable" [pre•sum•a•ble]

• That can be presumed or taken for granted; reasonable as a supposition: presumable causes of the disaster. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Somebody has to pay for that, and then that somebody will presumable want to recoup that cost as part of the sales price."
• "But if you are talking a game of chicken with China you are presumable talking about more than a very small devaluation, and that would be bad for people who want to buy goods from the world – which is just more than Wal Mart junk from China."
• "They are hard to track as they often stay in the shadows, and their involvement in acts of violence is usually only presumable."