Answer to Question #117419 in English for Peggy

Question

a) Explain or what does the words 'it has long been premised on' means?
b) Explain how you decide on your answer to a)?

Answer 1

a. It means something has long been based on a specific idea or belief. For example, the program "has long been premised on" the belief that discrimination can be mitigated.

b. To arrive at the above answer, I defined the meaning of the word "premised" which means to base and argument or hypothesis on something. I equally looked up for the meaning of the idiom "premised on" arriving at the above conclusion.