assumed

Related to assumed: attrite

assume airs

To think or behave as though one is superior to others or better than one really is; to have or assume a pretentious or self-aggrandizing attitude. I think John is really a decent fellow at heart, but I really wish he wouldn't assume such airs about his writing abilities. Stop assuming airs, Mary, you're not some world-class actor—you're just an amateur like the rest of us!
See also: air, assume

assume liability for

To take responsibility for something, typically a cost or expense. When you signed the contract, you assumed liability for fees like this.
See also: assume
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

assume liability for something

to accept the responsibility for paying a cost. Mr. Smith assumed liability for his son's student loans. The store assumed liability for the injured customer's hospital bills.
See also: assume
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • assume
  • assume airs
  • give (oneself) airs
  • give yourself airs
  • drive (one) out of office
  • force (one) out of office
  • force out of office
  • give (one) (one's) head
  • give head
  • give someone their head
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Malik Khursheed, who also assumed charge as the administrator of all 109 union councils in the district, added that assistant commissioners Tayyab Ahmed, Bilawal Mustafa, Waqar Ahmed and Muhammad Abid assumed charge of administrators of the Hasilpur, Khairpur Tamewali, Ahmedpur East and Yazman municipal committees.
How did they ever discover my fraud or use of an assumed name, when I did not disclose my real name at that time, and didn't disclose the assumed name in connection with my daughter's petition?
It is notified by the establishment division that Ghulam Rasool has assumed the charge of the post of Private Secretary (BS-17) in the commerce division w.e.f 06-06-17.
The largest jump -- from 25 to 21 -- was from Agrinational Insurance Co., which booked more than an 85 percent increase in premium assumed from non-affiliates.
First Citizens Bank and Trust Company, Inc., Columbia, South Carolina, has assumed all of the deposits of Williamsburg First National Bank.
The model assumes that stock prices will increase at the risk-free interest rate (B15) minus the expected dividend yield (B16), then plus or minus the price volatility (B12) assumed for the stock.
* Measure and recognize the assets acquired and liabilities assumed.
Deidre Lee, the Defense Department's director of procurement, has assumed a senior role at a newly formed branch of the General Services Administration.
Additionally, when the partnership satisfies the obligation or when the obligation otherwise becomes fixed (when economic performance occurs), the deduction related to the assumed liability is allocated to the contributing partner under Sec.
I assumed the role of an observer-participant and planned institute meetings, observed teachers engage in professional activities, and interviewed both principals and district supervisors.
Many agencies and organizations have, over the years, assumed that a substance should be assumed benign until proven harmful, and that caution is needed only in limited cases.
The court emphasized that it was not overruling the Northern Insurance decision, but made its decision because Henkel's liability was not imposed involuntarily by law, but assumed voluntarily by contract.
where a metallic screen illuminated by p- or s-polarized light is assumed. (1) The corresponding expression in Kirchhoff's theory, which is usually associated with black screens, is
That he labels as false the theory that there is a causal relation between Islam, monolithically assumed, and science, largely ill-defined, gives us good reason to believe that error in scope or methodology of the question is what Gutas wishes to highlight.
The authors whose essays are gathered in Court and Politics in Papal Rome, 1492-1700 take seriously the assertion of Ludovico Ludovisi, cardinal-nephew of Pope Gregory XV, that early modern Rome was "the world's theatre." They also, like Cardinal Ludovisi, suggest that this theater provided more than merely ostentatious pageantry masking rapidly declining political influence, as modern historians have often assumed. The essays in this volume argue that Rome from the fifteenth through the eighteenth century is a very crowded stage where one can observe the workings of great powers on an intimate scale: in the tight confines of the Roman cityscape, in the Curia, and especially in the claustrophobic quarters of the papal conclave.