postulation

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: postulation

1	n	a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
2	n	(logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: postulation

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a verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school; appeal, collection, ingathering, solicitation
request for a sum of money; demand
an urgent or peremptory request; job application
an application for a job; credit application
an application for a line of credit; loan application
an application to borrow money; patent application
an application for sole rights to an invention; whip-round
(British) solicitation of money usually for a benevolent purpose; challenge
a demand by a sentry for a password or identification; ultimatum
a final peremptory demand; insistence, insisting
continual and persistent demands; call, claim
a demand especially in the phrase "the call of duty"; requisition
the act of requiring; an authoritative request or demand, especially by a military or public authority that takes something over (usually temporarily) for military or public use; call
a demand for a show of hands in a card game; call, margin call
a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement; pay claim, wage claim
the wage demanded from management for workers by their union representatives

Type of:: content, message, subject matter, substance
what a communication that is about something is about

Type of:: declaration
a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written)

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