offer

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English

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɒfə(ɹ), -ɔːfə(ɹ)
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: of‧fer

Etymology 1

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(deprecated template usage) From Middle English offer, from Old English offrian (“offer or make a sacrifice”) rather than 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

offer (plural offers)

  1. A proposal that has been made.
    What's in his offer?
    • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:
      One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
  2. Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered.
    His offer was $3.50 per share.
  3. (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.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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(deprecated template usage) 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.

Verb

offer (third-person singular simple present offers, present participle offering, simple past and past participle offered)

  1. (intransitive) To propose or express one's willingness (to do something).
    She offered to help with her homework.
  2. (transitive) To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest.
    Everybody offered an opinion.
  3. (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.
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      Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
    • 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
      Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
  4. (transitive) To present (something) to God or gods as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.
    • Bible, Exodus xxix. 36
      Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement.
  5. (transitive, engineering) 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.
  6. (transitive) To bid, as a price, reward, or wages.
    I offered twenty dollars for it. The company is offering a salary of £30,000 a year.
  7. (intransitive) To happen, to present itself.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      The occasion offers, and the youth complies.
    • 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.
  8. (obsolete) To make an attempt; typically used with at.
    • (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      I will not offer at that I cannot master.
    • (Can we date this quote by Roger L'Estrange and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      He would be offering at the shepherd's voice.
    • (Can we date this quote by Jonathan Swift and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      without offering at any other remedy
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
      Here Jones, after expressing the utmost uneasiness, offered to stop her mouth:—“Hey-day! why sure, Mr Jones, you will let me speak; I speaks no scandal, for I only says what I heard from others […]
  9. (transitive) To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten.
    to offer violence to somebody
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Etymology 3

off +‎ -er

Noun

offer (plural offers)

  1. (used in combinations from phrasal verbs) agent noun of off
    • 2003, James-Jason Gantt, Losing Summer‎[1], →ISBN, 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.

Anagrams

Danish

Noun

offer n (singular definite ofret or offeret, plural indefinite ofre)

  1. sacrifice
  2. victim

Inflection

Declension of offer
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative offer ofret
offeret 		ofre ofrene
genitive offers ofrets
offerets 		ofres ofrenes

Derived terms

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch offere, from Old Dutch [Term?].

Noun

offer n (plural offers, diminutive offertje n)

  1. sacrifice
  2. victim
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

offer

  1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of offeren
  2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of offeren

Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) offer

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of offerō

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse offr

Noun

offer n (definite singular offeret, indefinite plural offer or ofre, definite plural ofra or ofrene)

  1. a sacrifice
  2. a victim, a casualty

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse offr.

Pronunciation

Noun

offer n (definite singular offeret, indefinite plural offer, definite plural offera)

  1. a sacrifice
  2. a victim, a casualty
    Offera var alle drepne på same måten.
    The victims were all killed in the same manner.

Derived terms

References

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse offr.

Pronunciation

Noun

offer n

  1. sacrifice
  2. victim

Declension

Declension of offer 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative offer offret offer offren
Genitive offers offrets offers offrens

Anagrams

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin offerenda.

Pronunciation

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Noun

offer f (plural offerau or offeriau or offrau)

  1. equipment

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
offer unchanged unchanged hoffer
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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