Look up: assumption

1. ASSUMPTION
   A method of selling real estate where the buyer of the property agrees to become responsible for the repayment of an existing loan on the property. Unless the lender also agrees, however, the seller remains liable for the mortgage.
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2. assumption
   [n] - celebration of the Virgin Mary`s being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended 2. [n] - (Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended 3. [n] - a hypothesis that is taken for granted 4. [n] - the act of assuming ...
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3. Assumption
   When a buyer assumes the loan payments and obligations of the seller. If the buyer defaults, however, both the buyer and seller are responsible for the debt.
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4. assumption
   (Learning Modules / Mathematics / Beam calculations) Something that is not questioned, but taken for granted. Sometimes we assume things that are not always true, and can be misled as a result.
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5. assumption
   belief supported by the inability to disprove some fact Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • a statement that is presumed to be true,often only temporarily or for a specific purpose Category: Statistics • the agreement between buyer and seller wh...
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6. Assumption
   As·sump'tion noun [ Middle English assumpcioun a taking up into heaven, Latin assumptio a taking, from assumere : confer French assomption . See Assume .] 1. The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's se...
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7. assumption
   1. The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting. 'The assumption of authority.' (Whewell) ... 2. The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim. 'This gives no sanction to the unwarrantable assumption that...
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8. Assumption
   noun (Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended
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9. assumption
   laying claim noun the act of taking possession of or power over something; `his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba`; `the Nazi assumption of power in 1934`; `he acquired all the ...
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10. assumption
    supposition noun a hypothesis that is taken for granted; `any society is built upon certain assumptions`
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11. Assumption
    Assumption of Mary noun celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary`s being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox church
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12. Assumption
    Becoming responsible for the liabilities of another party.
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13. Assumption
    • (n.) A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven. • (n.) The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim. • (n.) The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition. • (n.) The act of as...
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14. Assumption
    (from the article `Francia`) ...Costa, Francesco del Cossa, and Ercole de` Roberti, but his later works clearly show the influence of the Umbrians, Perugino, and Raphael. ...
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15. Assumption
    (from the article `Giovanni di Paolo`) ...Life of St. John the Baptist.` The brooding `Madonna` altarpiece of 1463 in the Pienza Cathedral marks the beginning of Giovanni`s late period, of ...
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16. Assumption
    (from the article `Titian`) Among the religious paintings Titian produced between 1516 and 1538 is one of his most revolutionary masterpieces, the Assumption (1516–18). This ...
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17. Assumption
    in Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic theology, the notion or (in Roman Catholicism) the doctrine that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was taken ... [3 related articles]
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18. assumption
    assumption 1. Something that is believed to be true without proof. 2. The action of taking to oneself; reception, adoption. 3. The action of receiving up into heaven; ascent to or reception into heaven; the reception of the Virgin Mary into heaven, with body preserved from corruption, which is a gen...
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19. Assumption
    In logic an assumption is a proposition that is taken for granted, as if it were true based upon presupposition without preponderance of the facts. An assumption that is considered to be self-evident or otherwise fundamental is called an axiom. In religion, an assumption is the bodily translation o...
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20. Assumption
    - Allows a buyer to assume responsibility for an existing loan instead of getting a new loan.
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21. Assumption
    A proposition which is taken or posed in order to draw inferences from it; or the act of so taking, posing, or assuming a proposition. The motive for an assumption may be (but need not necessarily be) a belief in the truth, or possible truth, of the proposition assumed; or the motive may be an attem...
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22. Assumption
    (n) Assumption is the process or act by which a person accepts a fact, meaning, obligations, liability etc attached or connected with the subject matter under consideration.
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23. assumption
    Type: Term Pronunciation: ă-sŭmp′shŭn Definitions: 1. Belief posited at the outset of an argument as a basis for deduction and inference. Commonly confused with a hypothesis, a conclusion at the end of the argument, or an inference based on empiric data.
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24. Assumption
    the act of assuming responsibility for the payment of a mortgage lien.
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25. Assumption
    The transfer of the seller's existing mortgage to the buyer.
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