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premise

Definition for premise

noun as in hypothesis, argument

verb as in hypothesize

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Some advisers do not accept the premise that the wealth-preservation phase is simpler than all those decades of wealth accumulation.

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And then a dose of tax cuts—above all on the stamp duty charged on house purchases, but also on a form of premises tax paid by businesses, among others.

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Mathis renamed the church the Nashville Church of Christ in 2018 and claimed to have launched an online ministry, but didn’t hold church services on the premises.

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The police forces were all asked by the BBC about offences with bladed weapons they had recorded on school premises in the past few years.

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Police swept the premises at the hospital just after 7 a.m. after receiving a 911 call reporting a shooting, according to a department spokesperson.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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