Presumptive may refer to:
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Heir presumptive
An heir presumptive is the person entitled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honour, but whose position can be displaced by the birth of an heir apparent or a new heir presumptive with a better claim to the position in question.
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, a person who is expected to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honor, but their position can be displaced by the birth of another person with a better claim to the position.
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Presumptive nominee
In politics of the United States, United States politics and government, the term presidential nominee has two different meanings:
# A candidate for president of the United States who has been selected by the Delegate (American politics), delegate ...
, a person who is candidate for president who has not yet received a party nomination, but is expected to receive that nomination in the near future.
* Presumptive
US president
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United Stat ...
, a person who is expected to receive the majority of the
Electoral College votes, but the appointed electors in each state have not yet met to cast their votes on the Monday after the second Wednesday in December.
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Speaker-presumptive
The speaker of a deliberative assembly, especially a legislative body, is its presiding officer, or the chair. The title was first used in 1377 in England.
Usage
The title was first recorded in 1377 to describe the role of Thomas de Hungerfo ...
, a person who is not yet the speaker of a parliament, but is expected to become the speaker in the near future.
* The
Presumptive Tax Regime in Pakistan.
* Presumptive mood, or
irrealis mood
In linguistics, irrealis moods (list of glossing abbreviations, abbreviated ) are the main set of grammatical moods that indicate that a certain situation or action is not known to have happened at the moment the speaker is talking. This contras ...
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grammatical mood
In linguistics, grammatical mood is a grammatical feature of verbs, used for signaling modality. That is, it is the use of verbal inflections that allow speakers to express their attitude toward what they are saying (for example, a statement of ...
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