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purport

verb/pəˈpɔːt/

B2CEFR level
38/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

To profess or claim to be or do something, without necessarily being so in fact.

The document purported to assign the copyright, but the assignor in truth had no title to convey.

Similar: profess, claim

Topic: Contracts in Legal English

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