proposition: Meaning and Definition of

prop•o•si•tion

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: Keeping diplomatic channels open is a serious proposition.
5. anything stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration.
6. a statement of the subject of an argument or a discourse, or of the course of action or essential idea to be advocated.
7. a statement in which something is affirmed or denied, so that it can therefore be significantly characterized as either true or false.
8. 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.

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