Suponer

I was familiar with ‘suponer(se)’ meaning ‘to assume’ or ‘to suppose,’ or used to express ‘supposed to’ in texts by Latin American authors, so I was stymied at first when I ran into a different usage from Spanish authors. This usage corresponds to meaning #3 in the DRAE (and perhaps metaphorical use of #5):

suponer.
(Del lat. supponĕre).
1. tr. Dar por sentado y existente algo.
2. tr. Fingir, dar existencia ideal a lo que realmente no la tiene.
3. tr. Traer consigo, importar. La nueva adquisición que ha hecho supone desmedidos gastos de conservación.
4. tr. Conjeturar, calcular algo a través de los indicios que se poseen.
5. intr. Tener representación o autoridad en una república o en una comunidad.

Here are some options for rendering these meanings of ‘suponer’ in English:

• mean
• represent
• imply
• involve
• entail
• present
• result in
• have
• be