offering Definition

offer
verb offered, offering

1. To put forward (a gift, payment or suggestion, etc) for acceptance, refusal or consideration.

Thesaurus: present, advance, proffer, donate, tender, put forth, submit, extend, grant, allow, volunteer, award.
2. formal
To provide.
Example: a site offering the best view
intr
3. To state one's willingness to do something.
4. To present something for sale.
5. To provide an opportunity for something.

Example: a job offering rapid promotion
intr
6. To present itself; to occur.

Example: if opportunity offers
tr & intr
7. To propose (a sum of money) as payment to someone.

Example: offer him £250 for the car
8. To present (a prayer or sacrifice) to God.

Thesaurus: sacrifice, present, proffer.
Form: offer something up (also)
9. To show (resistance, etc).
10. technical
In eg joinery, etc: to position or hold up (a part, etc) to test its size or suitability, etc before fixing it.
Form: offer up something (usually)

noun

1. An act of offering.
2. Something that is offered, especially an amount of money offered to buy something.
3. old use
A proposal, especially of marriage.

Derivative: offerer
noun

Someone who offers something, especially shares for sale.

Idiom: on offer

For sale, especially at a reduced price.

Idiom: under offer

Said of a house or flat, etc for sale: for which a possible buyer has made an offer, but with the contracts still to be signed.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon offrian, from Latin offerre, from ob- towards + ferre to bring.

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offering
noun

1. The act of making an offer.
2. Anything offered, especially a gift.

Thesaurus: donation, gift, present, sacrifice, contribution.
3. A gift of money given to a church, usually during a religious service, used for charity, etc.
4. A sacrifice made to God, a saint or a deity, etc in the course of worship.
5. In the Church of England: certain dues payable at Easter.

Form: offerings