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.