offer
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English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
- offre (obsolete)
Pronunciation [edit]
- (RP) IPA: /ˈɒfə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -ɒfə(ɹ)
- (US) IPA: /ˈɔfɚ/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈɑfɚ/
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Etymology 1 [edit]
From Middle English offer, from Old French offre (“offer”), from offrir (“to offer”), from Latin offerō (“to present, bring before”). Compare North Frisian offer (“sacrifice, donation, fee”), Dutch offer (“offering, sacrifice”), German Opfer (“victim, sacrifice”), Danish offer (“victim, sacrifice”), Icelandic offr (“offering”). See verb below.
Noun [edit]
offer (plural offers)
- A proposal that has been made.
- What's in his offer?
- Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered.
- His offer was $3.50 per share.
- (law) An invitation to enter into a binding contract communicated to another party which contains terms sufficiently definite to create an enforceable contract if the other party accepts the invitation.
- His first letter was not a real offer, but an attempt to determine interest.
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Etymology 2 [edit]
From Middle English offren, offrien, from Old English offrian (“to offer, sacrifice, bring an oblation”), from Latin offerō (“to present, bestow, bring before”, literally “to bring to”), from Latin ob + ferō (“bring, carry”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-, *bʰrē- (“to carry, bear”), later reinforced by Old French offrir (“to offer”). Cognate with Old Frisian offria (“to offer”), Old Dutch offrōn (“to offer”), German opfern (“to offer”), Old Norse offra (“to offer”). More at ob-, bear. Displaced Old English ābēodan from ā- + bēodan (“to command, decree, summon”).
Verb [edit]
offer (third-person singular simple present offers, present participle offering, simple past and past participle offered)
- (transitive) To present (something) to God as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.
- (transitive) To place (something) in a position where it can be added to an existing mechanical assembly.
- 2009, Roger Williams, Triumph Tr2, 3, 3a, 4 & 4a
- The next stage is to remove and replace the top part of the right side lip, and offer the lid to the car to ensure all the shapes and gaps are okay.
- 2009, Roger Williams, Triumph Tr2, 3, 3a, 4 & 4a
- (intransitive) To propose or express one's willingness (to do something).
- She offered to help with her homework.
- (transitive) To place at someone’s disposal; to present (something) to be either accepted or turned down.
- He offered use of his car for the week.
- He offered his good will for the Councilman's vote.
- (intransitive) To happen, to present itself.
- 1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Penguin 1985, p. 64:
- The opportunity, however, did not offer till next morning, for Phoebe did not come to bed till long after I was gone to sleep.
- 1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Penguin 1985, p. 64:
Usage notes [edit]
- This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
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Etymology 3 [edit]
Noun [edit]
offer (plural offers)
- (used in combinations from phrasal verbs) agent noun of off
- 2003, James-Jason Gantt, Losing Summer[1], ISBN 0595297498 9780595297498, page 146:
- Once you finally discover yourself a dismember-er, a de-limber, a fucking head-cutter-offer, the most simple of tasks — enjoying a long walk outside, seeing a movie, conversing with a stranger in the library — all become prized and over-inflated moments of elation.
- 2003, James-Jason Gantt, Losing Summer[1], ISBN 0595297498 9780595297498, page 146:
Statistics [edit]
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Most common English words before 1923: instance · sake · justice · #908: offer · promise · obliged · ourselves
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Danish [edit]
Noun [edit]
offer n (singular definite ofret or offeret, plural indefinite ofre)
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Inflection [edit]
Dutch [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
offer n (plural offers, diminutive offertje)
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Verb [edit]
offer
Latin [edit]
Verb [edit]
offer
- second-person singular present active imperative of offerō
Norwegian Bokmål [edit]
Noun [edit]
offer n (definite singular offeret; indefinite plural ofre; definite plural ofrene)
Norwegian Nynorsk [edit]
Noun [edit]
offer n (definite singular offeret; indefinite plural offer; definite plural offera)
Swedish [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
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offer n
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