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proposal

[pruh-poh-zuhl]

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noun

the act of offering or suggesting something for acceptance, adoption, or performance.

a plan or scheme proposed.

an offer or suggestion of marriage.

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Origin:
1645–55; propose + -al²

Related forms

mis·pro·pos·al, noun

Synonyms
1. recommendation. 2. suggestion, design. Proposal, overture, proposition refer to something in the nature of an offer. A proposal is a plan, a scheme, an offer to be accepted or rejected: to make proposals for peace. An overture is a friendly approach, an opening move (perhaps involving a proposal) tentatively looking toward the settlement of a controversy or else preparing the way for a proposal or the like: to make overtures to an enemy. Proposition, used in mathematics to refer to a formal statement of truth, and often including the proof or demonstration of the statement, has something of this same meaning when used nontechnically (particularly in business). A proposition is a proposal in which the terms are clearly stated and their advantageous nature emphasized: His proposition involved a large discount to the retailer.

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Example Sentences

Players searched for a good pickup game, owners digested a new proposal and each side anxiously awaited an arbitration decision.

It is unclear how much of the jobs proposal will get enacted given the acrimony between the two political parties.

The organisers' proposal is to blow ice-cold air into the stadiums.

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Players searched for a good pickup game, owners digested a new proposal and each side anxiously awaited an arbitration decision.

It is unclear how much of the jobs proposal will get enacted given the acrimony between the two political parties.

The organisers' proposal is to blow ice-cold air into the stadiums.

If the proposal were put into legislation, that key question would have to be answered.

The actual monitoring system proposal doesn't actually require much new from industrialized countries.

Sunset will develop a proposal customized to your marketing objectives.

Since then, increasingly bad climate news has only heightened interest in the proposal.

Before you can write a dissertation, you must write a dissertation proposal.

He deserves credit for an honest and daring proposal.

Their proposal would allow wolves that attack hunting dogs or livestock outside of fenced areas to be shot.

Finally, the proposal falls into the trap of thinking of global warming as a process that only involves a temperature change.

Getting published usually starts with a book proposal.

Overlooking that side of the equation indicates an agenda-driven proposal.

Don't explicitly state any goals, objectives, or hypotheses in your grant proposal.

So the department revised its proposal with more specifics.

The irony in his proposal is that such a guest-worker programme would necessarily encroach upon a federal prerogative.

Have the groups develop a proposal to the state's legislature that outlines what they believe is the best use of the land.

Scientists and diplomats review and edit their global warming proposal line by line to reach a consensus.

Parliament approves a proposal that would tighten penalties and outlaw computer-generated imagery.

The agreement also struck down a proposal that would have allowed the dogs to be shot.

Too bad there's not much science to back up the proposal.

Once a proposal is granted, the time has arrived to begin working to ensure that it stays that way.

But it replaces a proposal that was the stuff of nightmares.

In his mind, the proposal amounts to poor people subsidizing a private enterprise that will cater to the wealthy.

The techniques and the economics of this proposal remain to be developed.

They'd present a business proposal centered around two primary tracks.

Don't let your proposal become an unreadable swamp of alphabet soup.

Geithner's proposal is voluntary, and it's gotten some criticism because of this.

In it, a proposal is made to the subject to unevenly split a sum of money.

It's not an emergency proposal at this point," he said.

Your proposal will be read by busy scientists who probably are not expert in your exact area of interest.

But this early naming of the proposal delivers a nice dollop of.

But a proposal to allow limited fishing for scientific purposes was struck down by the panel.

The climate change benefits were merely considered an added benefit of a proposal thought would have gone forward anyway.

His proposal to use smiley and frowney faces is credited with launching the emoticon in the internet age.

After more than five hours of talks, his proposal was rejected.

Your proposal is interesting, and it should be tested, as you say.

But the proposal looked as if it had been scribbled on the back of an envelope.

Their error was to put their indecent proposal in writing, in an e-mail pitch.

We had to write a grant proposal for a project unrelated to our area of specialty.

More likely than a fresh proposal for sanctions is a fresh set of negotiations.

As far as the research proposal and the faculty steering you, it isn't always a bad thing.

Congress's lower house duly restored the president's proposal for the minimum wage this week.

Athletes, though, have yet to weigh in on the proposal.

The proposal should be due and marked before they go on to the next step.

Completion of coursework, comps, and proposal defense.

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World English Dictionary

proposal (prəˈpəʊz^əl)

—n
1.	the act of proposing
2.	something proposed, as a plan
3.	an offer, esp of marriage

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Word Origin & History

proposal

1650s, from propose; sense of "offer of marriage" is from 1749.

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