0 past simple and past participle of proposition
1 to ask someone who you are not in a relationship with if they would like to have sex with you:
Nogwaza had been with a friend at a bar the previous evening, and had a heated argument with a group of men who had propositioned her friend.
Symonds was propositioned numerous times.
He is also a new widower, and as soon as he returns from a tropical vacation and period of mourning, he finds himself propositioned by a number of women.
He met him after the show and propositioned him.
There was a huge response: most of the women had been propositioned, and most of the men and women felt threatened by activities in the area.
To realise the extent of the problem, one has only to walk home from this place late at night and see the homeless being propositioned by drug pushers.
The alarm and distress experienced by young girls—perhaps coming from school, even—who are followed and propositioned by men in slow-moving cars really has to be tackled.
Many women are also propositioned, causing offence and distress.
