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Offer   /ˈɔfər/   Listen
verb
Offer  v. t.  (past & past part. offered; pres. part. offering)  
1.
To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; often with up. "Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement." "A holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices."
2.
To bring to or before; to hold out to; to present for acceptance or rejection; as, to offer a present, or a bribe; to offer one's self in marriage. "I offer thee three things."
3.
To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest; as, to offer an opinion. With the infinitive as an objective: To make an offer; to declare one's willingness; as, he offered to help me.
4.
To attempt; to undertake. "All that offer to defend him."
5.
To bid, as a price, reward, or wages; as, to offer a guinea for a ring; to offer a salary or reward.
6.
To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten; as, to offer violence, attack, etc.
Synonyms: To propose; propound; move; proffer; tender; sacrifice; immolate.


Offer  v. i.  
1.
To present itself; to be at hand. "The occasion offers, and the youth complies."
2.
To make an attempt; to make an essay or a trial; used with at. "Without offering at any other remedy." "He would be offering at the shepherd's voice." "I will not offer at that I can not master."


noun
Offer  n.  
1.
The act of offering, bringing forward, proposing, or bidding; a proffer; a first advance. "This offer comes from mercy."
2.
That which is offered or brought forward; a proposal to be accepted or rejected; a sum offered; a bid. "When offers are disdained, and love denied."
3.
Attempt; endeavor; essay; as, he made an offer to catch the ball. "Some offer and attempt."





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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 ...
— Twenty Years At Hull House • Jane Addams
... to offer of the appearance of our Northumbrian Duergar. My narratrix is Elizabeth Cockburn, and old wife of Offerton, in this country, whose credit, in a case of this kind, will not, I hope, be much impeached ...
— 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
... bring his famous horses, Let him bring his golden swords to me,— Bring his slaves, his eunuchs, and his harem; He would offer them in ...
— Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, • Sherwin Cody


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