1. proposal: an idea, offer, or plan put forward for consideration or discussion
2. statement: a statement of opinion or judgment
3. offer of sexual intercourse: an invitation to have sexual intercourse
4. private agreement: a private deal or agreement
5. somebody or something to be faced: somebody or something to be dealt with
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The news that he would be there certainly made the party a more attractive proposition.
6. mathematics theorem: a statement or theorem to be demonstrated
7. philosophy meaning of declarative sentence: the meaning of a declarative sentence that expresses something that can be true or false
8. U.S. law proposal for amendment to law: a proposal for an amendment to the law that is set forth to be voted on Propositions imposing term limits for politicians have been common recently.
transitive verb (past and past participleprop·o·si·tioned, present participleprop·o·si·tion·ing, 3rd person present singularprop·o·si·tions)
Definition:
1. offer sex to somebody: to invite somebody to have sexual intercourse
2. offer deal to somebody: to offer to make a private deal or agreement with somebody
[14th century. Directly or via French< Latin proposition-< proposit-, past participle of proponere "put forth" < ponere "to place"]
