Definition of "offer"

offer¹

/ˈɒfə(ɹ)/

noun
plural offers
1. A proposal that has been made.
  Quotations
  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.
  1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
2. Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered.
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.

offer²

/ˈɒfə(ɹ)/

verb
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).
2. (transitive) To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest.
3. (transitive) To place at someone’s disposal; to present (something) to be either accepted or turned down.
  Quotations
  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.
  1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
  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.
  2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21
4. (transitive) To present (something) to God or gods as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.
  Quotations
  Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Exodus xxix:36
5. (transitive, engineering) To place (something) in a position where it can be added to an existing mechanical assembly.
  Quotations
  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
6. (transitive) To bid, as a price, reward, or wages.
7. (intransitive) To happen, to present itself.
  Quotations
  The occasion offers, and the youth complies.
  1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
  The opportunity however did not offer till next morning, for Phœbe did not come to bed till long after I was gone to ſleep:
  1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], page 72
  Much was I disappointed upon learning that the little packet for Nantucket had already sailed, and that no way of reaching that place would offer, till the following Monday.
  1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, page 7
8. (obsolete) To make an attempt; typically used with at.
  Quotations
  I will not offer at that I cannot master.
  a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a VVarre vvith Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany VVorks of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629
  He would be offering at the shepherd's voice.
  1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […]
  [W]ithout offering at any other Remedy, without taking time to conſider the Conſequences, or to reflect on our own Condition, we haſtily engaged in a War which hath coſt us ſixty Millions; […]
  1711 December 8, published 1711, pages 19–20
  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 […]
  1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […]
9. (transitive) To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive or defensive way; to threaten.

offer³

/ˈɒfə(ɹ)/

noun
plural offers
1. (used in combinations from phrasal verbs) agent noun of off
  Quotations
  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, page 146

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