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Word Meanings - PROPOSAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The offer by a party of what he has in view as to an intended business transaction, which, with acceptance, constitutes a contract. Syn. -- Proffer; tender; overture. See Proposition. (more info) 1. That which is proposed, or propounded

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The offer by a party of what he has in view as to an intended business transaction, which, with acceptance, constitutes a contract. Syn. -- Proffer; tender; overture. See Proposition. (more info) 1. That which is proposed, or propounded for consideration or acceptance; a scheme or design; terms or conditions proposed; offer; as, to make proposals for a treaty of peace; to offer proposals for erecting a building; to make proposals of marriage. "To put forth proposals for a book." Macaulay.

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  • PRELUDE
    An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
  • CHANCELLERY
    Chancellorship. Gower.
  • HAZARDIZE
    A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
  • PROJECTION
    The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
  • DESIGN
    drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
  • OFFER
    ferre to bear, bring. The English word was influenced by F. offrir to 1. To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up. Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for
  • REVOKER
    One who revokes.
  • PRELUDER
    One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason.
  • DESIGNATE
    Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
  • REVERT
    To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged
  • SUPPLYMENT
    A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
  • PURPOSELESS
    Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
  • OFFERER
    One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship. Hooker.
  • IMPORTUNELY
    In an importune manner.
  • VENTURESOME
    Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
  • RETRACTOR
    One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
  • PROJECTMENT
    Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
  • SUPPRESSOR
    One who suppresses.
  • RETREATFUL
    Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
  • ATTRACTABILITY
    The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
  • DISVENTURE
    A disadventure. Shelton.
  • SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
    The tenets of the Sadducees.
  • VORTEX THEORY
    The theory, advanced by Thomson on the basis of investigation by Helmholtz, that the atoms are vortically moving ring-shaped masses (or masses of other forms having a similar internal motion) of a homogeneous, incompressible, frictionless fluid.

 

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