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Word: proposition (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • countable An idea or a plan offered.
  • business settings The terms of a transaction offered.
  • 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.
  • mathematics An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
  • mathematics As a special case, textbooks often, and papers sometimes, label an assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be a theorem, a proposition. Normally this is part of a numerical reference system ('''Proposition 3.2''', '''Lemma 3.3''', '''Theorem 3.4''')
  • US|politics In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.
  • uncountable The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.

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Verb:

  • transitive To propose a plan to.
  • transitive To propose some illicit behaviour to, often sexual in nature

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