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noun
1.
the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
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a plan or scheme proposed.
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an offer of terms for a transaction, as in business.
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a thing, matter, or person considered as something to be dealt with or encountered: Keeping diplomatic channels open is a serious proposition.
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EXPANDanything stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration.
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Rhetoric. a statement of the subject of an argument or a discourse, or of the course of action or essential idea to be advocated.
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Logic. a statement in which something is affirmed or denied, so that it can therefore be significantly characterized as either true or false.
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Mathematics. a formal statement of either a truth to be demonstrated or an operation to be performed; a theorem or a problem.
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COLLAPSEa proposal of usually illicit sexual relations.
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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English proposicio(u)n < Latin prōpositiōn- (stem of prōpositiō) a setting forth. See propositus, -ion
1300–50; Middle English proposicio(u)n < Latin prōpositiōn- (stem of prōpositiō) a setting forth. See propositus, -ion
Related forms
prop·o·si·tion·al, adjective
prop·o·si·tion·al·ly, adverb
un·der·prop·o·si·tion, noun
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Word Origin & History
proposition
mid-14c., "a setting forth as a topic for discussion," from Fr. proposition (12c.), from L. propositionem "a setting forth, statement," noun of action from proponere (see propound). Meaning "action of proposing something to be done" is from late 14c. The verb is attested
EXPANDfrom 1924; specifically of sexual favors from 1936.
COLLAPSE
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