Dic: be understood that, be given to understand that

• We understand that she's in the studio recording her second album.
• As I understand it, you came round the corner by the cricket field and there was the man in the road.
• The management is understood to be very unwilling to agree to this request.
• It is understood that the veteran reporter had a heart attack.
• From childhood it was understood that your parents would choose your husband.

1. VERB : no cont | If you understand that something is the case, you think it is true because you have heard or read that it is. You can say that something is understood to be the case to mean that people generally think it is true.

2. be understood (that): formal. if something is understood, everyone knows it, or has agreed to it, and there is no need to discuss it:

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• I am given to understand that he was swearing throughout the game at our fans.
• I was given to understand that the property was in good condition.

1. PHRASE : give inflects, usu PHR that | If someone is given to understand that something is the case, it is communicated to them that it is the case, usually without them being told directly.

2 give somebody to understand (that): formal. to make someone believe that something is true, going to happen etc, without telling them this directly:

.... Cobuild, LDOCE