Definition of Propose

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Propose

To set forth.

To offer for consideration, discussion, acceptance, or adoption; as, to propose terms of peace; to propose a question for discussion; to propose an alliance; to propose a person for office.

To set before one's self or others as a purpose formed; hence, to purpose; to intend.

To speak; to converse.

To form or declare a purpose or intention; to lay a scheme; to design; as, man proposes, but God disposes.

To offer one's self in marriage.

Talk; discourse.

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Propose Quotations

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston Churchill

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
Ulysses S. Grant

No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Ulysses S. Grant

Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.
Thomas S. Monson

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.
Diane Abbott

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.
Edward Gibbon

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?
Julio Cortazar

Propose Translations

propose in Afrikaans is bied
propose in Dutch is uitloven, bieden, aanbieden
propose in Finnish is ehdottaa
propose in French is proposent, proposons, proposez, proposer
propose in German is vorschlagen
propose in Latin is propono
propose in Portuguese is proponha
propose in Spanish is proponer

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