Crossword clues for premises
premises
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Premise \Prem"ise\, n.; pl. Premises. [Written also, less properly, premiss.] [F. pr['e]misse, fr. L. praemissus, p. p. of praemittere to send before; prae before + mittere to send. See Mission.]
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A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
The premises observed, Thy will by my performance shall be served.
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(Logic) Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn.
Note: ``All sinners deserve punishment: A B is a sinner.'' [1913 Webster] These propositions, which are the premises, being true or admitted, the conclusion follows, that A B deserves punishment.
While the premises stand firm, it is impossible to shake the conclusion.
--Dr. H. More. pl. (Law) Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
pl. A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as, to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"building and grounds," 1730; see premise (n.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context logic English) (plural of premise English)Category:English plurals 2 (context plural only English) land, and all the built structures on it, especially when considered as a single place. 3 (context legal plural only English) The subject of a conveyance or deed
WordNet
n. land and buildings together considered as a place of business; "bread is baked on the premises"
Wikipedia
Premises are land and buildings together considered as a property. This usage arose from property owners finding the word in their title deeds, where it originally correctly meant "the aforementioned; what this document is about", from Latin prae-missus = "placed before".
In this sense, the word is always used in the plural, but singular in construction. Note that a single house or a single other piece of property is "premises", not a "premise", although the word "premises" is plural in form; e.g. "The equipment is on the customer's premises", never "The equipment is on the customer's premise".
In the information technology ("IT") industry, an increasingly common error surprisingly made by marketing professionals and their C-suite executives is the use of the term "on-premise" instead of the correct "on-premises" when discussing the location of IT infrastructure. The word "premise" has nothing to do with location.
Usage examples of "premises".
Even with the most fiercely contested of her financial deals, she'd always been able to 'leave' the premises and cool down.
When the maintenance vehicle reached the planet, it lifted not only the food that had been harvested on its cultivated continents but also all the equipment, vacating their premises to allow the indigenous population to expand as populations had a habit of doing.
But exploring appropriate premises was time-consuming, and with Thread continuing to fall, any outbound journeys had to be carefully timed and safe layover shelters built along the way.
We have to buy a rider for every mobile tank they bring onto the premises to live in.
I have kept to the original premises and places in "The Lady in the Tower" while moving along with such advances as possible and extrapolating as seemed logical.
There will be no way she can be removed from these premises, I assure you.
If Vanteer was going to work on the generator, she couldn't remain in the Tower premises, especially after Kincaid's remarks.
As she had left the premises of her own volition, she obviously had not been denied independence of decision and movement.
Petaybee Admin had its own - if empty - premises on the edge of the SpaceBase, and Lonciana was going to find herself to be the recipient of the fourth Nabatira Structural Cube.
And they were clever enough to have opened secure premises to get the weapons they wanted.
And once we have goods on the premises, I'll want to be sure nothing is missing the next day.
The ones allotted to his operation were naturally all up at the cliff premises, their clear beams penetrating the stygian darkness of the tunnel complex.
Everyone on the planet - with one notable exception - was girding their loins and securing their premises against that attack.
Robinton said, escorting Nip to the healer premises beyond the Harper Hall.
I was the only one on the premises, ensconced in a halo of warm, sleep-inducing light while the other offices remained dark and quiet.