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offer
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[ verb ] make available or accessible, provide or furnish
Examples "The conference center offers a health spa" "The hotel offers private meeting rooms" Used in print ("Editorials"...)The appointment of U_Thant of Burma as the U.N.'s Acting Secretary_General - at this writing , the choice appears to be certain - offers further proof that in politics it is more important to have no influential enemies than to have influential friends . (Chicago Daily Tribune...)They are willing to settle , however , in anything that offers pheasants to shoot at and peasants to work_at . (The Christian Science Monitor,...)A_few years ago a `` Timex All Star Jazz Show '' offered a broad range of styles , ranging from Lionel_Hampton 's big_band to the free-wheeling Dukes_of_Dixieland . (High Fidelity, 11:10...)The twenty-five year old recording offers rather faded string tone , but the balance between the instruments is good and the transfer is very quiet . Turning_to the more modern versions , Curzon 's ( London ) offers the most sophisticated keyboard work . |
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[ verb ] present for acceptance or rejection;
Synonyms Examples "She offered us all a cold drink" Used in print ("National Affairs"...)Through Secretary_Herter , Ike offered President-elect_Kennedy an opportunity to associate his new Administration with the breakoff decision . New_Mexico 's Clint_Anderson offered a resolution to change the Senate 's notorious Rule 22 to allow three-fifths of the Senators present and voting to cut_off debate , instead of the current hard-to-get two-thirds . (Time, 77: 3...)Two years ago Thompson offered his collection to the city . Last week most_of the other prizes , once offered to Pittsburgh , went on the block . (The Providence Journal BR-B16. Chicago Daily Tribune...)Do they , the A._M._A. , offer any solution other_than outright abolition of a medical system unsurpassed anywhere in the world ? Related terms |
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[ verb ] agree freely
Synonyms Examples "She volunteered to drive the old lady home" "I offered to help with the dishes but the hostess would not hear of it" Used in print (Edward E. Kelly, S.J., "Christian Unity in England"...)In this connection , it has been observed that the increasing number of Irish Catholics , priests and laity , in England , while certainly seen as good for Catholicism , is nevertheless a source of embarrassment for some of the more nationalistic English Catholics , especially when these Irishmen offer to remind their Christian brethren of this good . Almost daily something is reported which feeds this Catholic hope in England : statistics of the increasing numbers of converts and Irish Catholic immigrants ; news of a Protestant minister in Leamington who has offered to allow a Catholic priest to preach from his pulpit ; a report that a Catholic nun had been requested to teach in a non-Catholic secondary_school during the sickness of one of its masters ; the startling statement in a respectable periodical that `` Catholics , if the present system is still in_operation , will constitute almost one-third of the House_of_Lords in the next generation '' ; a report that 200 Protestant clergymen and laity attended a votive Mass offered for Christian unity at a Catholic_church in Slough during the Church Unity Octave . Almost daily something is reported which feeds this Catholic hope in England : statistics of the increasing numbers of converts and Irish Catholic immigrants ; news of a Protestant minister in Leamington who has offered to allow a Catholic priest to preach from his pulpit ; a report that a Catholic nun had been requested to teach in a non-Catholic secondary_school during the sickness of one of its masters ; the startling statement in a respectable periodical that `` Catholics , if the present system is still in_operation , will constitute almost one-third of the House_of_Lords in the next generation '' ; a report that 200 Protestant clergymen and laity attended a votive Mass offered for Christian unity at a Catholic_church in Slough during the Church Unity Octave . (Howard Fast, April Morning....)I did n't offer any advice , but I certainly did not want to go_back to where the officer lay with his brains dashed out . (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)They offered no opinions , volunteered nothing , betrayed no emotions . Related terms |
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[ verb ] put forward for consideration
Examples "He offered his opinion" Used in print (Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)Lubell offers his book as an explanation of why there was no clue . (87th Congress, 1st Session. Congressional Record....)Blockade is one answer offered by experts . (Raymond J. Corsini et al., Roleplaying in Business...)Roleplaying was offered as a solution - and the procedure worked as_follows : all candidates were invited to a hotel conference_room , where the president explained the difficulty he had , and how unnecessary it seemed to him to hire people who just did not work_out . Related terms |
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[ verb ] offer verbally
Synonyms Examples : "extend my greetings" "He offered his sympathy" Used in print (Harry Olesker, Impact....)Somehow , Blanche managed to cover the stunned surprise and offer her congratulations . (Doris Miles Disney, Mrs. Meeker's Money....)He would offer no theory to account_for her murder . |
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[ verb ] (business) make available for sale
Examples "The stores are offering specials on sweaters this week" Used in print (Handbook of Federal Aids to Communities. U.S. Dep...)The property sales assistance program is designed to assist small business_concerns that may wish to buy property offered for sale by the Federal_Government . Related terms |
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[ noun ] something offered (as a proposal or bid)
Synonyms Examples "noteworthy new offerings for investors included several index funds" Used in print (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)General_manager Pels even suggested that it might be wise to keep the Mexicans in suspense rather_than accept their offers to sell_out and move away , and try to have a_few punished . |
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[ noun ] the verbal act of offering
Synonyms Examples "a generous offer of assistance" Related terms |
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[ verb ] propose a payment; as at sales or auctions
Examples "The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting" Used in print (Los Angeles Times,...)Union_Oil_Co. of California_Tuesday offered $ 120 million in debentures to the public through a group of underwriters headed by Dillon , Read + Co. , to raise money to retire a similar amount held by Gulf_Oil_Corp. . |
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[ verb ] produce or introduce on the stage
Examples "The Shakespeare Company is offering "King Lear" this month" Used in print (Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)All these emotions were screwed_up to new heights when , after acceptance and the first rehearsals , there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music_lovers that Duclos had_to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King 's amusements , and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau . Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 31405
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[ verb ] threaten to do something
Examples : "I offered to leave the committee if they did not accept my proposal" Related terms |
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[ verb ] ask (someone) to marry you
Examples "he popped the question on Sunday night" "she proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months" "The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman" Related terms |
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