to make a proposal

  • 101enact — en|act [ıˈnækt] v [T] 1.) formal to act in a play, story etc ▪ a drama enacted on a darkened stage 2.) law to make a proposal into a law ▪ Congress refused to enact the bill. >enactment n [U and C] …

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  • 102enact — en|act [ ın ækt ] verb transitive 1. ) to perform a story or event as a play 2. ) TECHNICAL to make a proposal into a law ╾ en|act|ment noun count or uncount …

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  • 103enact — verb (T) 1 to make a proposal into law: Congress refused to enact the bill. 2 formal to act in a play, story etc: a drama enacted on a darkened stage enactment noun (C, U) …

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  • 104enact — UK [ɪnˈækt] / US verb [transitive] Word forms enact : present tense I/you/we/they enact he/she/it enacts present participle enacting past tense enacted past participle enacted 1) to make a proposal into a law 2) to perform a story or event as a… …

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  • 105enact — [ɪnˈækt] verb [T] to make a proposal into a law enactment noun [C/U] …

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  • 106propose — [c]/prəˈpoʊz / (say pruh pohz) verb (proposed, proposing) –verb (t) 1. to put forward (a matter, subject, case, etc.) for consideration, acceptance, or action: to propose a new method; to propose a toast. 2. to put forward or suggest as something …

  • 107propose — [prə pōz′] vt. proposed, proposing [LME < OFr proposer, altered (infl. by poser: see POSE1) < L proponere (pp. propositus), to set forth, display, propose: see PRO 2 & POSITION] 1. to put forth for consideration or acceptance 2 …

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  • 108Equal Rights Amendment — proposal for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would make gender discrimination unconstitutional (as opposed to merely illegal as it is today), ERA …

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  • 109United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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  • 110HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …

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