Usually means: Accepts as true without proof.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. assumes: Merriam-Webster
  2. assumes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. assumes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Assumes, assumes: Wordnik
  5. assumes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. assumes: Wiktionary
  7. assumes: Dictionary.com
  8. assumes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. assumes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. assumes: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. assumes: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. assumes: Idioms

(Note: See assume as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (assume)

verb:  To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof
verb:  To take on a position, duty or form
verb:  To adopt a feigned quality or manner; to claim without right; to arrogate
verb:  To receive, adopt (a person)
verb:  To adopt (an idea or cause)
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