1 to pretend to have a different name or be someone you are not, or to express a feeling falsely:
During the investigation, two detectives assumed the identities of antiques dealers.
He assumed a look of indifference but I knew how he felt.
2 to take or begin to have responsibility or control, sometimes without the right to do so, or to begin to have a characteristic:
3 to accept something as true without question or proof:
[ + (that) clause ] We can’t assume (that) he’s innocent simply because he says he is.
[ + (that) clause ] I assumed (that) nobody was home because the car wasn’t in the driveway.
4 to pretend to be someone you are not, or to express a feeling falsely:
During the investigation, two detectives assumed the identities of antique dealers.
Jim assumed a look of indifference.
5 to take control or claim authority, sometimes without the right to do so:
6 to begin to take control of something:
assume control/office/a role Europe has assumed a leadership role in the prevention of future global crises.
assume responsibility for sth The FSA said mortgages would not be affected when it assumed responsibility for the regulation of mortgage sales.
assume a debt/mortgage/risk In addition to paying $3 billion in cash, the newspaper group will assume $600 million of the company’s debt.
7 to accept that something is true without being sure about it:
8 to be based on a particular idea:
She was young and she was wearing student-type clothes so I assumed she was studying here.
There was a knock at the door. Now Jan knew her mother had promised to visit, so she assumed it was her.
They were chatting quite amiably on the phone last night so I assumed everything was okay.
I assumed things had gone well for him as he had a big grin on his face.
This implicitly assumes that players believe they will coordinate.
Mutations are assumed to be independent and identically distributed across players.
We emphasize the need to assume uniformity of extended preferences among individual observers; otherwise, the ordinary utilitarian formula cannot be derived.
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