The difference between Proposal and Suggestion

When used as nouns, proposal means something which is proposed, or offered for consideration or acceptance a scheme or design the terms or conditions proposed the document on which such a thing is written. the act of asking someone to be one's spouse, whereas suggestion means something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for).


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  1. Proposal as a noun (legal):

    Something which is proposed, or offered for consideration or acceptance A scheme or design The terms or conditions proposed The document on which such a thing is written. The act of asking someone to be one's spouse; an offer of marriage The offer by a party of what he has in view as to an intended business transaction, which, with acceptance, constitutes a contract.

    Examples:

    "usex proposals for the construction of a new building"

    "usex to make proposals for a treaty of peace"

  1. Suggestion as a noun (countable):

    Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)

    Examples:

    "I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit."

    "Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order."

  2. Suggestion as a noun (uncountable):

    The act of suggesting.

    Examples:

    "Suggestion often works better than explicit demand."

  3. Suggestion as a noun (countable, psychology):

    Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.

    Examples:

    "He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts."

  4. Suggestion as a noun:

    The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested.

  5. Suggestion as a noun:

    information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence

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