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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

... difference in standard, I may instance an early Hull-House picnic arranged by a club of young people, who found at the last moment that the club director could not go and accepted the offer of the mother of one of the club members to take charge of them. When they trooped back in the evening, tired and happy, they displayed a photograph of the group wherein each man's arm was carefully placed about a ...

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— The Lady of the Lake • Sir Walter Scott

... mouth. She did not say she did not want to be Esther. Mrs. Sandford was astonished at the change of performers; but Daisy's resignation was so simply made and naturally, and Nora's acceptance was so manifestly glad, that nobody could very well offer any hindrance. The change was made; but Preston would not suffer Daisy to be one of the attendants. He left her out of the picture altogether and put Jane Linwood in Nora's vacated place. Daisy was content; and now the practising and the ...

— Melbourne House, Volume 2 • Susan Warner

... me to the Heart. After all she was my own mother, or at least maintained so, in spite of numerous questions enjendered by our lack of resemblence, moral as well as physicle. But I did not offer to embrase her, as she was at that moment poring out her tea. I hid my misery behind the morning paper, and there I beheld the fated vision. Had I felt any doubt as to the state of my afections it was settled then. My ...

— Bab: A Sub-Deb • Mary Roberts Rinehart

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