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presumption   (TTS Sound)

The noun presumption has 4 senses

• given, presumption, precondition -- (an assumption that is taken for granted)


• presumption -- ((law) an inference of the truth of a fact from other facts proved or admitted or judicially noticed)


• presumption, presumptuousness, effrontery, assumption -- (audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness")


• presumption -- (a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming; "his presumption was intolerable")