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Offer

verb

(past & past part. offered; pres. part. offering)

1.

Make available or accessible, provide or furnish. "The hotel offers private meeting rooms"

2.

Present for acceptance or rejection. Synonym: proffer.

3.

Agree freely. Synonym: volunteer. "I offered to help with the dishes but the hostess would not hear of it"

4.

Put forward for consideration.

5.

Offer verbally. Synonym: extend. "He offered his sympathy"

6.

Make available for sale.

7.

Propose a payment. Synonyms: bid, tender.

8.

Produce or introduce on the stage.

9.

Present as an act of worship. Synonym: offer up.

10.

Mount or put up. Synonyms: provide, put up. "Offer resistance"

11.

Make available; provide. Synonym: extend. "The bank offers a good deal on new mortgages"

12.

Ask (someone) to marry you. Synonyms: declare oneself, pop the question, propose. "She proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months" , "The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman"

13.

Threaten to do something.

noun

1.

The verbal act of offering. Synonym: offering.

2.

Something offered (as a proposal or bid). Synonym: offering.

3.

A usually brief attempt. Synonyms: crack, fling, go, pass, whirl. "I gave it a whirl"

Off

adjective

1.

Not in operation or operational. "The lights are off"

2.

Below a satisfactory level. "His performance was off"

3.

(of events) no longer planned or scheduled. Synonym: cancelled.

4.

In an unpalatable state. Synonyms: sour, turned.

5.

Not performing or scheduled for duties.

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"Offer" Quotes from Famous Books

... question, Dr. Sommers was taken at once into a kindly intimacy with the Hitchcocks. Not long after this chance meeting there came to the young surgeon an offer of a post at St. Isidore's. In the vacillating period of choice, the successful merchant's counsel had had a good deal of influence with Sommers. And his persistent kindliness since the choice had been made had done much to render the first year in Chicago agreeable. ...

— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick

... which the tender-hearted Paul had for them. The elders of the church at Ephesus, and probably many of the sisters and lay brethren, had come to Miletus to have Paul take affectionate leave of them before taking sail for Jerusalem. He also desired to give them a parting exhortation and offer prayer with them on their behalf. The words of the exhortation are recorded in the chapter read, but the words of the prayer are not. We are not sure that the prayer was audible. It is possible to think they all kneeled together and thus prayed with and for each other, but mostly for Paul. ...

— Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary - Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk • John Kline

... king's. Then the cunning Cardinal, putting the best face he could on the matter, said that he had only been trying to build a residence worthy of so great and glorious a monarch, and that Hampton Court was at King Henry's service. The king jumped at the offer, but in return bestowed upon Wolsey the old manor of Richmond, the favorite residence of his father, Henry VII. It was observed, when the great Cardinal was going home, after this interview with his royal master, that he scowled and growled at ...

— Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children • Grace Greenwood

... the telephone system has undergone significant changes in the 1990s; there are more than 1,000 companies licensed to offer communication services; access to digital lines has improved, particularly in urban centers; Internet and e-mail services are improving; Russia has made progress toward building the telecommunications infrastructure necessary for a market economy; however, ...

— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... to die that we may live for His sake. 'I go to Rome to be crucified again' were the words in which the old legend braced the fugitive and made a hero of him, and sent him back to be crucified like his Lord and to offer up his physical life, as he had long since offered up his self-will and his arrogance to the Lord that ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. John Chapters I to XIV • Alexander Maclaren

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