Definition of Offer

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Definition of Offer

Offer

To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

To bring to or before; to hold out to; to present for acceptance or rejection; as, to offer a present, or a bribe; to offer one's self in marriage.

To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest; as, to offer an opinion. With the infinitive as an objective: To make an offer; to declare one's willingness; as, he offered to help me.

To attempt; to undertake.

To bid, as a price, reward, or wages; as, to offer a guinea for a ring; to offer a salary or reward.

To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten; as, to offer violence, attack, etc.

To present itself; to be at hand.

To make an attempt; to make an essay or a trial; -- used with at.

The act of offering, bringing forward, proposing, or bidding; a proffer; a first advance.

That which is offered or brought forward; a proposal to be accepted or rejected; a sum offered; a bid.

Attempt; endeavor; essay; as, he made an offer to catch the ball.

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Offer Quotations

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George Washington

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
Walt Whitman

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Jane Austen

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Colin Powell

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
James Dean

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Offer Translations

offer in Afrikaans is bied, aanbod, voorstel
offer in Dutch is huwelijksaanzoek, aanzoek
offer in Finnish is ehdottaa
offer in French is proposer, offrissent, offre, offris, sacrifier
offer in German is anbieten, angebot, Angebot {n}
offer in Italian is licitazione, licitare, offrire, offerto
offer in Latin is exhibeo exibeo, offero, praesto presto, polliceor
offer in Portuguese is oferta

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