I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a viable proposition (= an idea that will work )
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Is this kind of tourism a viable proposition?
attractive offer/proposition/package etc
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I must say, it’s a very attractive offer.
put a proposition/proposal to sb
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I’ve a proposition to put to you.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
attractive
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It is not an attractive proposition for independent power generation because it is difficult to finance.
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In theory, a star-driven period melodrama with top-notch production values should have been an attractive proposition for distributors.
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If hiring costs can be reduced by machines working longer, it could become an even more attractive proposition .
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By the end of the Regency period the pub was becoming a far more attractive proposition for the government, too.
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Costs and qualifications All-optical cabling is an attractive proposition .
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This was not an attractive proposition , but my idea of womanhood was hardly preferable.
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I can't feel that this music as presented here is an attractive proposition at full price.
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Relativism is not an attractive proposition to anyone, least of all philosophers, because everything becomes so uncertain and transitory.
basic
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Contracts A business bargain or contract rests on the basic proposition that each party to the contract is in agreement.
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Their basic proposition was that we tend to organise and simplify incoming information until it makes a satisfying pattern.
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It is this basic proposition that underlies much of recent Marxian writings on underdevelopment.
different
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Sentences can therefore express different propositions on different occasions of use.
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A proposition can not change its truth-value without in effect becoming a different proposition.
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Malcolm Harris was a slightly different proposition .
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Last season Boldon struggled throughout but they are a different proposition this time after signing several leading players during the winter.
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His uncle Laban is a different proposition altogether.
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Biological filters are a different proposition .
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Hot water is a different proposition .
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He uses the indeterminacy of language to convey, through a single utterance, two very different propositions to the audience.
general
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By asserting it, however, we are also committing ourselves to a general conditional proposition of a standard kind.
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These two problems in combination make any general propositions about the trade pattern diffIcult.
practical
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However, most taxes which are a practical proposition create their own distortions in the economy and involve non-trivial collection costs.
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Reading bar codes into the system is a practical proposition , but the database side of things is not.
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Being realistic about it, a bar code system that would directly provide text string is not a very practical proposition .
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This does not sound like a very practical proposition , at least not in the immediate future.
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However desirable it is that they receive training, many do not see it as a practical proposition .
true
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But can true propositions cause anything?
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Now what about the subset which represents the true propositions of our formal system?
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Truth is literally what a true proposition expresses.
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There are certain simple classes of true arithmetical proposition that do form recursively enumerable sets, however.
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We have found a true proposition which has no proof within the system!
viable
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Recording the electrical activity of single brain cells in mammals only became a viable proposition in the 1950s.
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Only a handful of producers - say a dozen or so - regard wine as a viable commercial proposition .
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What keeps the propliners of the world still going as viable business propositions is an item known as the bottom line.
■ NOUN
business
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We had a regular business proposition .
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Anyway, it would be a a business proposition .
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It's a proposition - a business proposition.
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I would like to discuss a business proposition of possible benefit to us both.
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In practice the price obtained will be less than the generating cost, so as a business proposition it is a non-starter.
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Such a broker examines all franchise propositions carefully to determine whether they will make good business propositions.
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It also turns a dream into a solid business proposition , worth the considerable investment.
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What keeps the propliners of the world still going as viable business propositions is an item known as the bottom line.
■ VERB
accept
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For my part, I would not be prepared to accept that as a proposition of law.
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We can not accept this proposition .
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I do not accept that proposition .
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We can in fact accept it along with our proposition that effects are necessitated events.
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All her dreams, in an instant, had vaporised into nothing - for she knew she would never accept his proposition .
support
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Voters supported proposition 22 by 61 % to 39 %, bestowing official recognition only on marriages between men and women.
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We support the proposition that the provision of access beyond existing Rights of Way should be paid for out of the public purse.
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Research overwhelmingly supports the proposition that age is a poor predictor of performance and ability.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Proposition 209 outlawed affirmative action in California.
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I'll consider your proposition and let you know.
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I have a proposition to make.
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Most of Aristotle's propositions have proven wrong over time.
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We're still studying the proposition .
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We are prepared to look at any reasonable proposition from the council.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But as the centennial neared, he approached Fred with quite a secular proposition .
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Film theorists first put forward the proposition that the construction of the spectator in mainstream cinema is gendered.
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However, all this makes the Rolls a more costly proposition if it needs repairing.
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I am left with the cup the idea of that ordinary physical object - or a proposition about the cup.
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Inevitably this raises a question about the logical structure of existential propositions in general.
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It's a proposition - a business proposition.
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It would be difficult to sustain this proposition .
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Those behind the proposition are a group of hard-working volunteers who want to improve Tucson.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She complained that her boss propositioned her on several occasions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even she, who'd been propositioned by experts, had to admit that.
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Had Puddephat provoked this storm by propositioning the boy?
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His parishioners had grumbled that streetwalkers propositioned them after his sermons.
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I was propositioned by this absolutely stunning girl who couldn't have been any more than seventeen.