proposition

From Middle English proposicioun, from Old French proposicion, from Latin prōpositiō, from the verb prōponō.

• (General American) enPR: präp'ə-zĭshʹən IPA^(key): /ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃən
• Hyphenation: prop‧o‧si‧tion

proposition (countable and uncountable, plural propositions)

1. (uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
2. (countable) An idea or a plan offered.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.

3. (countable, business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.
4. (countable, US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.
5. (grammar) A complete sentence.
   • c. 1888, The Popular Educator: a Complete Encyclopaedia of Elementary, Advanced, and Technical Education. New and Revised Edition. Volume I., page 98:

     Our English nouns remain unchanged, whether they form the subject or the object of a proposition.

6. (countable, logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion; (Aristotelian logic) a predicate of a subject that is denied or affirmed and connected by a copula.

   “Wiktionary is a good dictionary” is a proposition.

7. (countable, mathematics) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
8. (countable, mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.
9. A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed.

   the propositions of Wyclif and Huss

   • 1668, Jeremy Taylor, “Twenty-seven Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Summer Half-year, […]: Sermon XXI. [Of Christian Prudence.] Part II.”, in Reginald Heber, editor, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D. […], volume VI, London: Ogle, Duncan, and Co. […]; and Richard Priestley, […], published 1822, →OCLC, page 113:

     There are some persons, whose religion is hugely disgraced, because they change their propositions, according as their temporal necessities or advantages do return.

10. (poetic) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.
11. Misspelling of preposition.

• (act of offering an idea for consideration): proposal, suggestion
• (idea or plan offered): proposal, suggestion
• (terms offered): proposal
• (content of an assertion): statement
• (proposed statute or constitutional amendment):

proposition (third-person singular simple present propositions, present participle propositioning, simple past and past participle propositioned)

1. (transitive, informal) To make a suggestion of sexual intercourse to (someone with whom one is not sexually involved).

   Synonyms: pass, come on, hit on

2. (transitive, informal) To make an offer or suggestion to (someone).
   • 1984 April 7, anonymous author, “Isolate and Conquer”, in Gay Community News, page 12:

     The Superintendent of the facility tried to proposition with me that if I snitched to the guards and would work with him, then he would put my friend and me back together again.

• make a pass

• propose

• opistoporin

proposition

1. genitive singular of propositio

From Latin prōpositiōnem (“statement, proposition”), from prōpōnō (“propose”), from pōnō (“place; assume”).

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.po.zi.sjɔ̃/

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• Homophone: propositions

proposition f (plural propositions)

1. proposition, suggestion
2. (grammar) proposition
3. (grammar) clause

• “proposition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

proposition

1. Alternative form of proposicioun

From Latin prōpositiō, prōpositiōnem.

proposition f (plural propositions)

1. (Jersey) proposition
2. (Jersey, grammar) clause

• proposition prîncipale (“main clause”)
• proposition s'gondaithe (“subordinate clause”)

proposition c

1. a proposition, a government bill[1] (draft of a law, proposed by the government)

• bills introduced by members of parliament are called motion

• budgetproposition
• forskningsproposition
• försvarsproposition
• kompletteringsproposition
• kulturproposition
• propositionell
• statsverksproposition