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proposal
[ pruh-poh-zuhl ]
noun
- the act of offering or suggesting something for acceptance, adoption, or performance.
Synonyms: recommendation
- a plan or scheme proposed.
Synonyms: design, suggestion
- an offer or suggestion of marriage.
proposal
/ prəˈpəʊzəl /
noun
- the act of proposing
- something proposed, as a plan
- an offer, esp of marriage
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- mispro·posal noun
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In 2013, however, Paul released another budget proposal that reversed course.
Meanwhile, a proposal to raise the minimum wage to a little more than $10 an hour languishes in Congress.
However, Adriana referenced a proposal “to transform the current prison into a cultural center.”
He says there are discussions with U.S. officials about the proposal but there is deep suspicion.
The new proposal from Beijing requires a majority vote by the Hong Kong Legislature to go into effect.
The king was struck with horror at the description I had given him of those terrible engines, and the proposal I had made.
The Admiralty have turned down the proposal to force the Straits simultaneously by land and sea.
This was no longer a plan whereby all might be poor together, but a proposal that all should be rich together.
In its essential nature socialism is nothing but a proposal for certain kinds of economic reform.
"No, you will not," cried three or four officers of his regiment, who had come up in time to hear his proposal.
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