# premises

Pronunciation: say "PREM-i-siz" US/UK /ˈpɹɛmɪsɪz/, AUS /ˈpɹemɪsɪz/

## Noun

1. Land together with all the buildings on it, especially when thought of as a single place.
   - Simple: A building or piece of land, with everything built on it, seen as one place.
   - _Security guards patrol the premises after closing time each night._
   - _The restaurant brews its own beer right on the premises._
2. Plural of premise. — plural of premise
   - Simple: Plural of premise. Use this for more than one idea that an argument is built on.
   - _The debate stalled once the two premises were shown to contradict each other._
   - _His whole case rested on premises that no one had checked._
3. The property or matter that a conveyance or deed is concerned with.
   - Simple: The property that a legal paper, like a deed, is about.
   - _The conveyance transferred the premises to the buyer free of any claims._
   - _The deed's opening clauses identified the premises being sold._

## Verb

4. Third-person singular simple present of premise. — third-person singular simple present indicative of premise
   - Simple: Third-person singular present tense of premise. Use it with he, she, or it.
   - _The report premises its forecast on steady economic growth._
   - _He premises every chapter on a question he then tries to answer._

## Noun

5. An obsolete slang euphemism for the vagina, used to refer to it without naming it directly. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: An old slang word for the vagina, used to avoid saying it plainly.

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