"proposalist" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1729, Jonathan Swift, Letters Upon the Use of Irish Coal",
          "text": "Till these projectors bring specimens, and to such a bearing as the Whitehaven, and till there be a security for the ships, where the proposalists call for L. 10,000, though, as I am informed, with a great uncertainty of performance, and another call by way of subscription for above L. 20,000.",
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          "ref": "1836, John Goodwin, Samuel Dunn, Christian Theology, page 29",
          "text": "Replies to these Queries were attempted by two anonymous individuals; which brought from Goodwin's pen, \"The Apologist Condemned: Or, a Vindication of the thirty Queries, together with their Author, &c.; by Way of Answer to a scurrilous Pamphlet, published, as it seems, by a Proposalist, under the mock Title of an Apology for Mr. John Goodwin; together with a brief Touch upon another Pamphlet, entitled, Mr. J. Goodwin's Queries Questioned.",
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          "ref": "1930, The Insurance Field - Volume 59, page 84",
          "text": "The only missing link in the file is some explanation of how the \"proposalist\" (whose name, by the way, is shown in the usual lists of life insurance men liscensed in Chicago) learned of the policyholder's insurance situation and came to start the claim.",
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        {
          "ref": "1996, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Richard Layman, Joel Myerson, The Professions of Authorship: Essays in Honor of Matthew J. Bruccoli",
          "text": "Another potential contributor seems to be a \"serial proposalist\"; during the ten years that the UCAL series has been in existence, he has submitted plans for volumes on at least three writers.",
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        "One who submits a proposal."
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          "ref": "1729, Jonathan Swift, Letters Upon the Use of Irish Coal",
          "text": "Till these projectors bring specimens, and to such a bearing as the Whitehaven, and till there be a security for the ships, where the proposalists call for L. 10,000, though, as I am informed, with a great uncertainty of performance, and another call by way of subscription for above L. 20,000.",
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          "ref": "1930, The Insurance Field - Volume 59, page 84",
          "text": "The only missing link in the file is some explanation of how the \"proposalist\" (whose name, by the way, is shown in the usual lists of life insurance men liscensed in Chicago) learned of the policyholder's insurance situation and came to start the claim.",
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        "One who submits a proposal."
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