presupposeverb [ T ]
uk/ˌpriː.səˈpəʊz/us/ˌpriː.səˈpoʊz/to accept that something is true before it has been proved:
[ + that ] You're presupposing that he'll have told her - but he may not have.
formal If an idea or situation presupposes something, that thing must be true for the idea or situation to work:
Investigative journalism presupposes some level of investigation.
[ + that ] All this presupposes that he'll get the job he wants.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Guessing, supposing and suspecting
- approximate
- as much idiom
- call
- conjecture
- consider
- deem
- divine
- fall
- hypothesize
- jump
- jump to conclusions idiom
- mark
- mark sb down as sth
- misjudge
- pluck
- presume
- smell
- speculate
- think
- think of sth/sb
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