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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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"Offering" Quotes from Famous Books

... Lefevre, "do you consider what you are so promptly offering? Do you know that my experiment, if successful, might leave you a paralytic, or ...

— Master of His Fate • J. Mclaren Cobban

... hitherward from Hungary, from Limburg, from all ends of the earth. Both negotiating parties had shown a manifest wish to terminate without war; and both made various attempts or proposals that way; Friedrich offering, in the name of European peace, to yield the Austrians some small rim or paring of Bavaria from the edge adjoining them; the Austrians offering Anspach-Baireuth with some improvements;—always offering Friedrich his own Baireuth-Anspach ...

— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XXI. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle

... Herod's table begging for the Baptist's head, and then presenting it to her mother Herodias. The costumes are quattrocento Florentine, exactly rendered. Salome is a graceful, slender creature; the two women who regard her offering to Herodias with mingled curiosity and horror are well conceived. The background consists of a mountain landscape in Masaccio's simple manner, a rich Renaissance villa, and an open loggia. The architecture perspective is scientifically accurate, and a frieze of boys with garlands on the ...

— New Italian sketches • John Addington Symonds

... strenuous action, elaborately worked-out situations, and the gradual growth and change of human passion into it, we feel that there must be a lack of artistic sincerity somewhere. Italian opera may offer all these things, the things that the age wants in its opera, but it can never be sincere in offering them, and art is the one ...

— Old Scores and New Readings • John F. Runciman

... 102 B.C. the Teutons and Ambrons packed their tents and began to move east. The grass had grown sufficiently to feed their horses and oxen. Marius allowed them to traverse the Rhone without offering resistance; and they began their march along the road that ran at the foot of ...

— In Troubadour-Land - A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc • S. Baring-Gould

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