Usually means: Believe something without sufficient proof.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. assume: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. assume: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. assume: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. assume: Collins English Dictionary
  5. assume: Vocabulary.com
  6. Assume, assume: Wordnik
  7. assume: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. assume: Wiktionary
  9. assume: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. assume: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. assume: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. assume: Dictionary.com
  13. assume: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. assume: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Assume: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Assume: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. assume: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. assume: Rhymezone
  19. assume: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. assume: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. assume: Free Dictionary
  22. assume: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. assume: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. assume: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. assume: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. assume: Legal dictionary
  6. assume: Financial dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. assume: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ASSUME: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. assume: Idioms

(Note: See assumability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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