<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>The act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.</li><li>A plan or scheme proposed.</li><li>An offer of terms for a transaction, as in business.</li><li>A thing, matter, or person considered as something to be dealt with or encountered: Keeping diplomatic channels open is a serious proposition.</li><li>Anything stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration.</li><li>Rhetoric. A statement of the subject of an argument or a discourse, or of the course of action or essential idea to be advocated.</li><li>Logic. A statement in which something is affirmed or denied, so that it can therefore be significantly characterized as either true or false.</li><li>Mathematics. A formal statement of either a truth to be demonstrated or an operation to be performed; a theorem or a problem.</li><li>A proposal of usually illicit sexual relations.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(Used with object) to propose sexual relations to.</li><li>To propose a plan, deal, etc., to.</li></ul>