Usually means: Beliefs accepted without proof, evidence.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word assumptions:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. assumptions: Merriam-Webster
  2. assumptions: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Assumptions, assumptions: Vocabulary.com
  4. Assumptions, assumptions: Wordnik
  5. assumptions: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. assumptions: Wiktionary
  7. Assumptions: Dictionary.com
  8. assumptions: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Assumptions: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Assumptions: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Assumptions: Legal dictionary
  3. Assumptions: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Assumptions: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Assumptions (for IPEs, IPEEs, and PRAs): NRC Glossary of Nuclear Terms --

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. assumptions: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Assumption)

noun:  The act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself; the act of taking up or adopting.
noun:  The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.
noun:  The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
noun:  (logic) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
noun:  The taking of a person up into heaven.
noun:  A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven, celebrated on 15 August.
noun:  (rhetoric) Assumptio.
noun:  The Assumption of Mary, the mother of Jesus, into heaven, a Catholic dogma.
noun:  A Christian holy day of obligation (August 15) celebrating the Assumption of Mary.
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