Premises meaning

Property and the structures that are on that property.
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Preliminary statements in a document upon which later ones are predicated.
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A building, or part of a building, including its grounds. See also premise.
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(plural only) Land, and all the built structures on it, especially when considered as a single place.
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(law, plural only) The subject of a conveyance or deed.
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(logic) Plural form of premise.
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Origin of premises

Sentence Examples

  • The new decoration of the Premises contributed much to the magnificence of the spectacle.

  • I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger who approached his master's premises with clothes on, but was easily quieted by a naked thief.

  • There are as many kinds of inference as there are different ways of combining premises, and in the main three types: 1.

  • It requires the combination of at least two premises to infer a conclusion different from both.

  • Yet within recent years great alterations have been effected; in the newer quarters are several handsome streets and public buildings; in the centre many insanitary dwellings have been swept away, and their place occupied by imposing blocks of shops and business premises, and a magnificent new town-hall, erected in a dominant position.

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