The phrase "alternate proposal" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when suggesting a different option or plan in a discussion or negotiation context.
Example: "If the initial plan doesn't work for everyone, I would like to present an alternate proposal for consideration."
Alternatives: "alternative suggestion" or "different proposal".
Originally, officials proposed that E-ZPass users pay a 10 percent toll increase, but the alternate proposal shifts the burden entirely onto drivers who pay cash.
Richard Wilson Cameron's alternate proposal is a step in the right direction.
Mr. Fisher said recently of an alternate proposal, by a nonprofit history association, for a more modest museum on the site: "Other people have ideas for it.
And if it crumbles, there doesn't seem to be a viable alternate proposal on the table for individuals and families facing the largely unaffordable costs of long-term care.
But Mr. Leibell, a Republican from Putnam County, has an alternate proposal: a tour of duty as a diplomat in some unsteady corner of the globe - perhaps Iraq or Libya.
While there is no alternate proposal on the table, Mr. Hall said he planned to take several ideas from investors and then "see what we think is best for residents of the village".
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, whose budget proposal included cutbacks in programs for women, children and the elderly whose financing had already been approved by the Council, must now give the Council some alternate proposals for reductions.
That is because the automatic tax increases and spending cuts that are scheduled to begin in January, called "the fiscal cliff" by Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, are actually better for them in some respects than many of the alternate proposals in Washington.
Prospects for the scheduled resumption of talks on Iran's contentious nuclear energy program next week appeared to recede further Thursday, when the Iranians issued new objections to Turkey as the formerly agreed location for the talks and revealed they had rejected alternate proposals to hold them in at least three European countries.
These fees are widely opposed in Congress and by the aviation industry, which is itself starting to coalesce around alternate proposals to eliminate the F.A.A. entirely in favor of a government-subsidized quasi-private air control system that would be managed by the airlines.
McCourt has anticipated that baseball will try to remove him, arguing in legal documents Tuesday that an alternate financing proposal advanced by baseball "is nothing more than a thinly veiled effort to take total control over the debtors and these cases".
