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PROPOSAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of making a proposal
Example:
they listened to her proposal
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("proposal" is a kind of...):
speech act (the use of language to perform some act)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "proposal"):
presentation (the act of presenting a proposal)
Derivation:
propose (make a proposal, declare a plan for something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An offer of marriage
Synonyms:
marriage offer; marriage proposal; proposal; proposal of marriage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("proposal" is a kind of...):
offer; offering (something offered (as a proposal or bid))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "proposal"):
question (an informal reference to a marriage proposal)
Derivation:
propose (ask (someone) to marry you)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Something proposed (such as a plan or assumption)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("proposal" is a kind of...):
content; message; subject matter; substance (what a communication that is about something is about)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "proposal"):
advice (a proposal for an appropriate course of action)
counterproposal (a proposal offered as an alternative to an earlier proposal)
hypothesis (a proposal intended to explain certain facts or observations)
proffer; proposition; suggestion (a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection)
introduction (a new proposal)
re-introduction (a proposal of something previously rejected)
motion; question (a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote)
Context examples:
It was not without an effort, meanwhile, that she could wait even for Longbourn, before she told her sister of Mr. Darcy's proposals.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Another bad night. Mother did not seem to take to my proposal.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I will; and you shall hear how poor the proposal is,—how trivial—how cramping.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The king was struck with horror at the description I had given of those terrible engines, and the proposal I had made.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
This was the strange proposal, Mr. Holmes, with which the man Blessington approached me.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"I know Meg would wet-blanket such a proposal, but I thought you had more spirit," began Laurie insinuatingly.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The original goal of the team's observing proposal was to determine whether Europa has a thin, extended atmosphere, or exosphere.
(Possible Water Plumes on Jupiter's Moon Europa, NASA)
Amendments are the mechanism of changes introduction, further development and improvement of previously submitted or approved clinical study protocols and proposals.
(Amendment, NCI Thesaurus)
Agreement with a statement or proposal to do something.
(Assent, NCI Thesaurus)
When the countryman saw so much money, he said, “I will agree to your proposal.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
