Definitions for proposition

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proposition prop·o·si·tion

Spelling: [prop-uh-zish-uh n]

IPA: /ˌprɒp əˈzɪʃ ən/

Proposition is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 358 anagrams from letters in proposition (iinooopprst).

Definitions for proposition

noun

1. the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
2. a plan or scheme proposed.
3. an offer of terms for a transaction, as in business.
4. a thing, matter, or person considered as something to be dealt with or encountered:
5. anything stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration.
6. Rhetoric. a statement of the subject of an argument or a discourse, or of the course of action or essential idea to be advocated.
7. Logic. a statement in which something is affirmed or denied, so that it can therefore be significantly characterized as either true or false.
8. Mathematics. a formal statement of either a truth to be demonstrated or an operation to be performed; a theorem or a problem.
9. a proposal of usually illicit sexual relations.

verb (used with object)

1. to propose sexual relations to.
2. to propose a plan, deal, etc., to.

Origin of proposition

1300-50; Middle English proposicio(u)n Latin prōpositiōn- (stem of prōpositiō) a setting forth. See propositus, -ion

Examples for proposition

An HIV scare, Rand Paul talking points, and a (maybe) proposition.

This proposition is one of keen interest in connection with aviation.

And Mrs. Roberts smiled, and assented to the statement, but not to the proposition.

I think the proposition is still debatable, or at least still in formation.

Here is my proposition: You choose one of those girls and marry her.

You say that the one proposition is an inference from the other.

It stands for the proposition that the biological basis of procreation should also be the sole organizing principle of society.

This is the proposition which I intended to enforce in the present section.

But the proposition had eventually broken apart in the churning, acidic stomach of Washington politics.

The lack of love likely stems from DeMaio's silence on proposition 8.