premises

1. 1
   nounplural

   A building or piece of land, with everything built on it, seen as one place.

   Like the whole spot where a store sits: the building and the ground under it.

   The company moved its offices to larger premises downtown.

   Smoking is not allowed anywhere on the premises.

   Similarproperty, grounds, site, building

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2. 2
   noun

   Plural of premise. Use this for more than one idea that an argument is built on.

   Both premises of the argument turned out to be false.

   She built her conclusion on shaky premises.

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3. 3
   nounplural

   The property that a legal paper, like a deed, is about.

   The deed described the premises and named the new owner.

   Lawyers checked that the premises matched the survey map.

   Similarproperty

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4. 4
   verb

   Third-person singular present tense of premise. Use it with he, she, or it.

   She premises her entire theory on a single unproven claim.

   The author premises the book on the idea that history repeats.

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