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proposed

[pruh-pohz]

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verb (used with object)

to offer or suggest (a matter, subject, case, etc.) for consideration, acceptance, or action: to propose a new method.

to offer (a toast).

to suggest: He proposed that a messenger be sent.

to present or nominate (a person) for some position, office, membership, etc.

to put before oneself as something to be done; design; intend.

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to present to the mind or attention; state.

to propound (a question, riddle, etc.).

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verb (used without object)

to make an offer or suggestion, especially of marriage.

to form or consider a purpose or design.

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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Middle French proposer (see pro-¹, pose¹), by association with derivatives of Latin prōpositus, past participle of prōpōnere to set forth. See propositus

Related forms

pro·pos·a·ble, adjective

pro·pos·er, noun

mis·pro·pose, verb, -posed, -pos·ing.

re·pro·pose, verb, -posed, -pos·ing.

un·pro·pos·a·ble, adjective

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un·pro·posed, adjective

un·pro·pos·ing, adjective

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Synonyms
1. proffer, tender, suggest, recommend, present. 4. name. 5. plan. See intend. 6. pose, posit.

Antonyms
1. withdraw.

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Example Sentences

Proposed changes to the military's retirement system have been much in the news lately.

It was proposed last month by faculty leaders who argue.

The proposed new bank taxes are the right solution to the wrong problem.

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Proposed changes to the military's retirement system have been much in the news lately.

It was proposed last month by faculty leaders who argue.

The proposed new bank taxes are the right solution to the wrong problem.

The proposed road would block both northward and southward migrations.

Public-private partnership proposed to develop pharmaceuticals.

Flanders proposed that two factors, working together, utterly changed the dinosaur's world.

The letter should explain and outline the proposed story idea, and suggest an appropriate month or season.

Researchers who study the brain's perception of time have previously proposed several ways our mental clock might work.

The president has proposed a five-year freeze of discretionary spending, excluding national security spending.

The agency will also want to know why your proposed activities are worth the risk of investment.

Based on a visitor's street address, the site generates a map showing the closest proposed nuclear transport routes.

Proposed posture for a feathered dinosaur stirs controversy.

The scientists proposed that it may be a matter of size.

The proposed legislation also would reinstate a ban on newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership.

It suggests the impact may have come from a much more modestly sized foreign body than previous research has proposed.

The logic behind the proposed revisions, therefore, merits a further look.

Some researchers have proposed that that only names published in peer-reviewed publications should be acceptable.

The proposed settlement releases those companies from the lawsuit, as well.

Over time, researchers have proposed several theories for the extinctions.

The rise and the fall of the seas has been proposed as one of the drivers of these changes.

The administration also withdrew a proposed rule that would have weakened air pollution controls for coal-fired plants.

Last week's proposed definition was meant to apply to all planets in the universe.

The proposed museum would be both inland and underwater.

The long-awaited proposed regulations on accountable care organizations have been issued.

The department is expected to further tweak its proposed language and come back with more revisions later in the week.

More important are the proposed new statutory defences against libel claims: truth, public interest and honest opinion.

Proposed rule would shield small sources of the greenhouse gases contributing to climate change.

Scientists have proposed plenty of explanations for the lengthy solar minimum, but it's remained somewhat of a solar mystery.

Officials say that proposed changes would strengthen protections while reducing red tape that impedes studies.

Some in the discipline fear that proposed changes will water down researchers' obligations.

The past few months have seen a parade of proposed corporate marriages in all sorts of gee-whiz industries, from.

Energy research and environmental regulation among areas hardest hit in proposed budget plan.

Some species proposed for bioenergy have the potential to become invasive.

The dozens of ways that scientists, as well as crackpots, have proposed to geoengineer the world's climate won.

The proposed tax is billed as a way to fight obesity and provide billions for health care reform.

Yet the open-door policy that has been proposed leaves too many questions unanswered to be effective.

Even critics recognise that the proposed deal offers huge public benefits.

The moving bits in the proposed data-storage scheme do not stop and start instantaneously, but their motion is easy to quantify.

Not all of the projects currently proposed are what many people think of as bullet trains.

First, it cannot be the study already proposed and underway.

There will be another squabble this autumn over the proposed budget, which is much tighter than last year's.

Wilson has proposed an immediate strategy to help halt that.

Proposed effect, to slow the fall of a rapidly vibrating molecule, faces skepticism.

Malaysia announced this week that it will put on hold the proposed bullet train.

Heated conflicts have broken out in communities where mosques are proposed near far less hallowed locations than ground zero.

While some students are happy to see the survey courses go, not all welcome the proposed change.

He says the agency's proposed incursion into the research area ignores the findings of its own study.

So why did movie studios feel that the proposed film adaptat.

The journal article notes that it was submitted and approved for publication before the policy change was proposed.

Smuts proposed to set aside lands for a botanical reserve along the banks of.

Researchers have proposed potential therapies for a paralyzing disorder once thought to be untreatable.

Generation after generation of paleontologists have proposed different mechanisms that could have sent the.

The proposed settlement still requires final court approval.

He and his colleagues were worried that proposed changes to an.

Numerous hypotheses for different structures have been proposed over the years.

It had been proposed that people had been living around this coastline.

With dinosaur-on-dinosaur combat ruled out, the researchers looked at diseases that had been proposed to account for the damage.

Named after a laundry detergent and originally proposed to clean up a problem with particle physics, axions.

Maybe that's why nobody has proposed a plan to save the redhead.

Smaller-scale studies might chip away at parts of the targeted health issues, but nothing else yet proposed could take its place.

But his half-completed proposed wording, often cited by historians, was pedestrian:.

Despite the attacks, the national government yesterday ruled out a proposed plan to allow crocodile hunting in the territory.

One of the original proposed sites contained nests of birds known as petrels.

Egypt proposed killing all of the pigs in the country.

The hypothesis is the latest in a string of diseases proposed to explain the small-bodied fossils.

For years, scientists have proposed supercharging algae growth by dumping tons of iron into the ocean.

The information may be useful for a proposed dune restoration project.

It says the proposed cloaking device would not require any peripheral attachments.

Kelly proposed a treatment that sounded both logical and strangely unmedical.

That's the new theory proposed in two recent books and at a talk last month during an annual scientific meeting.

The authors have proposed a scenario that truly reaches the limits of conscious thinking.

Four years later a government committee proposed that tourism be used as a development tool to support the economic.

Two main competing hypotheses have been proposed for the orangutan's origins.

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Word Origin & History

propose

mid-14c., from O.Fr. proposer (12c.), from pro- "forth" + poser "put, place" (see pose (v.1)). Meaning "make an offer of marriage" is first recorded 1764.

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"There is no legislation—I care not what it is—tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equals in importance the putting of our banking and currency system on the sound basis proposed in the National Monetary Commission plan."

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