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Offering

noun

1.

Something offered (as a proposal or bid). Synonym: offer.

2.

Money contributed to a religious organization.

3.

The verbal act of offering. Synonym: offer.

4.

The act of contributing to the funds of a church or charity. Synonym: oblation.

Offer

verb

(past & past part. offered; pres. part. offering)

1.

Make available or accessible, provide or furnish. "The hotel offers private meeting rooms"

2.

Present for acceptance or rejection. Synonym: proffer.

3.

Agree freely. Synonym: volunteer. "I offered to help with the dishes but the hostess would not hear of it"

4.

Put forward for consideration.

5.

Offer verbally. Synonym: extend. "He offered his sympathy"

6.

Make available for sale.

7.

Propose a payment. Synonyms: bid, tender.

8.

Produce or introduce on the stage.

9.

Present as an act of worship. Synonym: offer up.

10.

Mount or put up. Synonyms: provide, put up. "Offer resistance"

11.

Make available; provide. Synonym: extend. "The bank offers a good deal on new mortgages"

12.

Ask (someone) to marry you. Synonyms: declare oneself, pop the question, propose. "She proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months" , "The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman"

13.

Threaten to do something.

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... course of years she had become so accustomed to the routine of a full life, a life charged with incessant variety of interests, occupations, amusements, a life offering day after day "something to look forward to," and teeming with people whom she knew, that she now confronted weeks, months even, of solitude with Claude almost in fear. He had his work. She had never been a worker in what she considered the real sense, that is a creator striving to ...

— The Way of Ambition • Robert Hichens

... the Order of Saint-Charles of Nancy framed a face so strong that I ceased to wonder how this woman had cowed a German horde; and it thrilled me to think that in this very doorway she had stood at bay, offering her black-robed body as a shield for the wounded soldiers and poor people ...

— Everyman's Land • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... is about the densest outside of the city counties. There is thus an abundance of land. As a matter of fact there is not the least difficulty for the Negro farmer to get plenty of land, and he has but to show himself a good tenant to have the whites offering ...

— The Negro Farmer • Carl Kelsey

... eyes and ears, not offering to lend him a hand, secure in the knowledge that he could climb back unaided into the unstable craft without the slightest risk ...

— On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales • Jack London

... would fall very considerably. That, therefore, was the time for knowing men like Mr Black, who believed in the soundness of the bank, to buy. Accordingly he wrote a letter to Mrs Niven, advising her to sell her shares, and offering to transact the business for her, but he omitted to mention that he meant to buy them up himself. He added a postscript on the back, telling of the loss of ...

— Philosopher Jack • R.M. Ballantyne

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