working assumption

collocation in English

meaningsofworkingandassumption

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working
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈwɜː.kɪŋ/us
/ˈwɝː.kɪŋ/
relating ...
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assumption
noun
uk
/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/us
/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/
something that you accept as true without question ...
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(Definition ofworkingandassumptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofworking assumption

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Theworkingassumptionis that the review will somehow unmask the truth and shed direct light on a tangible policy decision.
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Our generalworkingassumptionis that most people studying reading are interested in the cognitive processes underlying this activity.
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This is the bestworkingassumption, conservativeworkingassumption, we can make in a presentation which looks ahead several years.
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Aworkingassumptionis something that comes to be revised, of course, as one goes forward and the evidence changes.
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That is theworkingassumptionunder which all the negotiations will take place.
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The period reflects theworkingassumptionthat the life of agency investments will on average be five years.
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I add it to parity of esteem and aworkingassumptionof permanence.
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It is not the figure on which theworkingassumptionhas been based.
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Our currentworkingassumptionis to have a core staff of between 100 and 150 full time equivalent people in place for spring 2005.
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The registrar's currentworkingassumptionis, however, that he will receive about 300,000 initial applications, with 90,000 per year thereafter.
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For forward planning there was aworkingassumptionof 500 requests per annum.
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The period reflects aworkingassumptionthat the life of agency investments will on average be five years.
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The £39.50 to which he referred is aworkingassumption.
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There is no provision that precludes the commencement of this clause before devolution, but theworkingassumptionis that it will commence after devolution.
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Can he please confirm that that is still hisworkingassumption?
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Theworkingassumptionis that this will be done by exclusion.
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The second reason is that we have had to make aworkingassumptionof higher unemployment.
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