assert oneself

1. 1.

   put oneself forward in an assertive and insistent manner

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Questions about assert oneself

What does assert oneself mean?

assert oneself means "put oneself forward in an assertive and insistent manner".

Is assert oneself a common word?

assert oneself is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.