PROPOSITION


Meaning of PROPOSITION in English

noun

1 arrangement/offer/suggestion

ADJECTIVE

▪ attractive , tempting , win-win

▪ feasible , practical , viable

▪ business , commercial , economic , paying

▪ losing ( esp. AmE )

VERB + PROPOSITION

▪ put to sb

Ring up your agent in New York and put your ~ to him.

▪ consider

▪ accept

▪ reject

2 thing to be done

ADJECTIVE

▪ difficult , tough , tricky

▪ simple

Getting a job is not always a simple ~.

▪ expensive

▪ all-or-nothing ( AmE )

▪ dangerous , dicey ( AmE ), risky

▪ different

Running the business was one thing. Getting it to make a profit was a different ~ altogether.

3 idea/opinion

ADJECTIVE

▪ basic , central , fundamental

▪ true

▪ abstract , empirical , existential , general , theoretical

▪ dubious

▪ simple

… OF PROPOSITIONS

▪ set

VERB + PROPOSITION

▪ advance , express , put forward

▪ test

▪ support

PROPOSITION + VERB

▪ concern sth , relate to sth

PREPOSITION

▪ ~ about

The book puts forward a number of ~s about the nature of language.

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .