propose

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Like, what the fuck do you propose they work on?

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Quick take

make a proposal, declare a plan for something; "the senator proposed to abolish the sales tax"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of propose gathered in one view.

verb

make a proposal, declare a plan for something; "the senator proposed to abolish the sales tax"

verb

present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.; "He proposed a new plan for dealing with terrorism"; "She proposed a new theory of relativity"

verb

propose or intend; "I aim to arrive at noon"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for propose.

verb

make a proposal, declare a plan for something; "the senator proposed to abolish the sales tax"

verb

present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.; "He proposed a new plan for dealing with terrorism"; "She proposed a new theory of relativity"

verb

propose or intend; "I aim to arrive at noon"

verb

put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position; "The President nominated her as head of the Civil Rights Commission"

verb

ask (someone) to marry you; "he popped the question on Sunday night"; "she proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months"; "The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman"

Example sentences

Like, what the fuck do you propose they work on?

The sequence I propose assumes that you are starting from scratch, just like we were.

Worse, the author says that "filtering" should solve this problem, but doesn't propose how such a filter would work.

"The wizard nods sagely, and asks, "And what would you propose that will solve this obvious dilemma?

I'd like to propose using a more neutral phrase, like "hire away" to describe this practice, instead of "poach".

If you cannot constructively improve on what was proposed, then you can avoid polluting it.

Call the baby ugly if you must, but at least propose something that hasn't already been tried and shown not to solve the problem.

Also, it's deceiving to propose that essays are baggage-free.

Chomsky essentially founded the field of formal language theory, and was the first to propose many widely-used constructs, such as the context-free grammar.

However, the answer, to my mind, is to do it properly rather than propose a wild experiment with hand-wavy arguments as to why it would be politically easier to do.

Finally, I propose a new standard: Replication attempts fail when their results indicate that the effect, if it exists at all, is too small to have been detected by the original study.

I'd expect them to think something closer to "Now would be an excellent time to contact the decisionmaker at my client and propose restructuring their business process for a 20% discount to the total cost of everything right now.

For anyone building a competitive browser that is not Chrome or chromium-based, what you propose is a money pit in direct and opportunity costs, with no clear path to standardization, where Firefox would always be behind in "Pepper conformance" compared to Chrome.

How do you propose to fix this?Pick the crime the federal government is doing and continuing to do under Obama, and tell me, how do you propose to change things so that the federal government can no longer operate outside the law?The argument for electing Obama to end the wars and close guantanimo, etc, made some sense if you believed these were Republican initiatives.