## Meanings
1. An idea, plan, or suggestion that is offered for consideration.
2. A task or matter that has to be dealt with, especially a difficult one.
3. To make an offer or suggestion to someone, often a sexual one.
4. In logic, a statement that can be judged as either true or false.

## Examples
- The investors found her business proposition both bold and convincing.
- Securing enough funding turned out to be a time-consuming proposition.
- She was uncomfortable when a stranger propositioned her at the party.
- "All birds can fly" is a proposition that turns out to be false.

## Synonyms
- proposal
- statement
- suggestion

## Derived Forms
- counterproposition
- metaproposition
- proplet
- propositional
- propositionize
- propositionless
- pseudoproposition
- subproposition

## Related Forms
- propose

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: proposicioun
- Root: proposicion

## Etymology
From Middle English proposicioun, from Old French proposicion, from Latin prōpositiō, from the verb prōponō.

## AI Etymology
Proposition is from Middle English proposicioun, from Old French proposicion, from Latin prōpositiō, from the verb prōponō. Important recorded forms include proposicioun (Middle English) and proposicion (Old French). Current senses include an idea, plan, or suggestion that is offered for consideration and a task or matter that has to be dealt with, especially a difficult one. The wider family includes derived forms such as counterproposition, metaproposition, proplet, propositional, and propositionize; related words such as propose.

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