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What does take for granted mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word take for granted? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To assume something to be true without verification or proof.
  2. (transitive, idiomatic, especially of a person) To give little attention to or to underestimate the value of, to fail to appreciate.
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One aspect of the deconstructive turn is the realization that things that we take for granted as givens are in fact inventions.
Zeiss pioneered many products and technologies we take for granted, such as roof-prism binoculars and anti-reflective lens coatings.
Most of the modern conveniences we take for granted were invented less than a century ago and many of them just a few decades ago!
Living in a land of religious freedom, it is easy to take for granted the blessing of being able to worship freely and openly.
It was only in the nineteenth century that industrialization and financialization produced the liquidity we now take for granted.
So many women of my generation take for granted that women had always had our freedoms.

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