verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
acquire/assume significance formal (= take on significance )
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As links with Europe continue to grow, language learning assumes even greater significance.
adopt/assume an identity (= give yourself a new identity )
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She assumed a false identity and went to live in South America.
assume command formal (= start to be in charge of a group of people )
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He assumed command of all the troops in the Washington area.
assume epidemic etc proportions formal (= become or seem very great )
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Unless you deal with it quickly, the damage may assume serious proportions.
assume importance (= become important )
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The town assumed importance once it was connected to the rail system.
assume liability (= take the responsibility for something, which you did not have before )
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You would then assume the tax liability for the account.
assume power formal (= take power )
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He assumed power after the assassination of the former president.
assume/adopt a position formal (= move your body into a particular position )
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The patient should adopt this position for five minutes every half hour.
assumed name
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He’s been living in Peru under an assumed name.
it is a mistake to think/assume etc sth
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It would be a mistake to assume that all snakes are dangerous.
it is naive to think/suppose/assume etc
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It would be naive to think that this could solve all the area’s problems straight away.
it’s safe to say/assume (that)
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I think it’s safe to say that the future is looking pretty good.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
always
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I have always assumed that Brightside had it right and Dagenham was merely contributing a series of Gouldisms to the discussion.
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She has always assumed her regular place on the couch, the special place where the starters sit.
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She had always assumed that something would happen, sometime, to sweep away her marital comfort.
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I had always assumed teachers' salaries were generous, but Kierra corrects my impression.
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We have always assumed that animal protein was the necessary kind for human health.
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I had always assumed that this sort of civilized dismay at barbarism was the monopoly of our cause.
often
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In a commercial or industrial setting it is often assumed that organisations try to maximise profits as their main goal.
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But the fact is that the way we live our lives often assumes a belief about them, one way or another.
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The proper field of women psychologists is often assumed to be far from the heights of psychological theory.
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We often assume that those above us know much more than they do.
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The purer forms of objectivity do not always aid an investigation to the degree that is often assumed .
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The grant of a patent can too often assume a talismanic significance for those closely involved in its conception and development.
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Lauer often assumes hosting duties when Gumbel is on vacation.
■ NOUN
expression
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Oliver assumed an expression of extreme penitence.
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When they gave political responses, we may assume that the expression of political pride was spontaneous.
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He assumed a pained expression and averted his eyes.
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I assumed my best dumb-brunette expression when handing this on to Humber.
form
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These are taken-for-granted groupings which assume some form of unity within each category without ever clearly identifying the source of this unity.
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The gaunt faces beneath closely cropped heads and the young faces on emaciated bodies had began to assume form and substance.
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This was followed by intervention, by an ... intensification of the class struggle, which assumed the form of civil war.
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Her devotees could assume the form of horses and were also accused of riding men to death on their beds.
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But they can not assume their final adult form and breed unless they reach land.
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He would assume a new form and step into the ways of fatherhood.
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At this stage the cells had already assumed an epithelial form , but were not yet expressing the two marker proteins.
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Afterward, they assumed cockroach form and pestered the poor fellow throughout his lonely meal!
importance
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In the one-day game, the priority is to save every run, and it is the outfielder who assumes hey importance .
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It meant that at the moment of its founding, Atchison assumed importance as the eastern terminus of the overland stagecoach lines.
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If the farm has hill-grazing rights, these may assume an overriding importance in relation to other factors.
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So it must be assumed that the importance of marginal increments of all production is low and declining.
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Privately financed and provided group medical plans are assuming greater importance .
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This theological argument for differentiation was to assume the greatest importance in spreading the Copernican theory.
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In future economic efficiency was likely to assume as much importance as the technical side.
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Financial management is now assuming greater importance .
mantle
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The problem with all these calculations is they assume a homogenous chemical mantle .
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What would happen if this man were to assume the mantle of the most powerful person on earth?
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The rocks began to assume a mantle of translucent ice that dripped in grey icicles from overhangs.
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Because of his brother's hanging, he assumed the mantle of laibon.
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Chatri Sophonpanich, the second son, has now assumed his father's mantle .
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Joey held second spot for two laps before Robert assumed the mantle .
model
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The legal model assumes that the board of directors manages the ordinary business of the company.
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Such a model assumes that: 1.
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Women of colour who face racist practices can not be simply incorporated into models which assume white women as the norm.
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In his original model McKenzie assumed , for ease of calculation, that the lithosphere is stretched instantaneously.
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On their upper-range models at least, Mazda assume that you'd like those things.
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Decision-process models also assume that consumer learning and experience will build up and affect future purchase situations.
position
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It is lavishly illustrated and presented and has assumed a pre-eminent position in its field.
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She watched him assume the awkward position .
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In this passage, Berger has simply assumed that the platonist position has prevailed.
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The five-year MEng honours degree course is for particularly able students who expect to assume responsible positions in industry immediately after graduation.
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This seemed very Californian; assuming the Peace Position with my llama grazing by my side.
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We leave our classrooms, assemble in hallways, assume the proper position .
responsibility
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If they fail will they assume responsibility for the failure or blame some one else?
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And so we must assume responsibility , even for these.
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As head of CI5, Cowley had assumed the responsibility for the protection of the Colonel, a guest in the country.
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As a principal, he assumes responsibility for the performance of the entire transportation contract.
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The state is just assuming responsibility for building and repairing schools, which carries a billion-plus price tag.
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This remains the situation that social service departments will inherit in April 1993, when social services assume responsibility for private care.
role
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Furthermore, the Conservative Party was, it argued, the only party fit to assume this role .
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Concern continues about the inability of supervisors to fully assume their roles in making the team system work.
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In effect the exporter assumes the role of a buyer and has to market the counter-purchased goods.
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He had been to school one day and already he was using phrases and assuming roles that belonged to a different world.
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However, in order to do this, it follows that you must be versatile and able to assume many different roles .
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Sculley assumed the role of scoutmaster.
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For the first time in classical antiquity the nuclear family had assumed a central role in the politics of state.
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Dunaway next year will assume the role of movie producer.
■ VERB
let
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But let us assume that when we question him he proves not to have overlooked such dangers.
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And let it be assumed that as an alternative he might choose unchanged productivity which has left everyone employed.
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But let us assume that all of them do and hence must be memorized.
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Now let us assume that the money supply increases.
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For this section let us assume S-D-S preferences so that all households have the same tastes.
seem
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It would seem reasonable to assume that measures aimed at treating calculi in these patients may reduce the frequency of infection.
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It seems reasonable to assume that he used his science to determine the probable course of the history of the immediate future.
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It seems fair to assume that she will attract the attention of a goodly number of our countrymen.
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But they also say the United States seems to assume that it should not have to compete for the key posts.
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This seemed very Californian; assuming the Peace Position with my llama grazing by my side.
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McLanahan and Sandefur seem to assume , also, that only fathers can perform certain functions within the family.
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It seems reasonable to assume Fedorov will collect it, despite the danger.
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Ahmed seems to assume that this larger number has arisen by duplication from the n 1 -1 8 complex.
tend
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But both sides tend to assume that men keep things this way because they benefit so much.
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We tend to assume that everybody has a car these days and will be affected by these increases.
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Davis and Moore have tended to assume that the most highly rewarded positions are indeed the most important.
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Yet we tend to assume it is equal in all people.
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Textbooks and newspaper articles tend to assume that there are no changes in legislation or personal circumstances in order to illustrate a principle.
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They also tend to assume , conveniently, that those who will be affected by the change, have the same information.
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Conventional economic and accounting theory tends to assume that the process involved is highly rational and orderly.
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Inevitably this affects their attitude to these people so that they tend to assume that all their visits are time-wasting.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I can only think/suppose/assume (that)
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As for an Iguana Air, I can only assume it's a tropical airline.
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Now if I can only think of their name.
always assuming/supposing (that) sth
take on/assume/wear the mantle of sth
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Against all expectations, it has not taken on the mantle of best pupil in the euro class.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Assuming a carefree air, Luke picked up his jacket and walked to the door.
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Coen's economic forecast assumes a 3.5 percent growth rate.
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Her family life assumed more importance after the accident.
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I just assumed that the woman standing next to Jack was his wife.
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I think we can safely assume that the practice is legal.
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We assume that other industrialized nations are going to help with money for food and other supplies.
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When socializing with his co-workers he would assume a hearty, over-bearing manner.
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You shouldn't just assume things without getting all the facts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had been to school one day and already he was using phrases and assuming roles that belonged to a different world.
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In our original study, we assumed that Mr Major could hope to win roughly one by-election in three in Tory seats.
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Mackenzie assumed direct control, with his partners in subordinate positions.
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The role of defending the Church was assumed by the lower clergy, their chief spokesman being Francis Atterbury.
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They argue that to assume the worst is often to invite disaster.
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When they saw her appear at the bedroom window, they could only assume she was all right.
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You will not succeed by assuming that decisions alone will achieve behavior change.