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offer

Syllables: of·ferUK/ˈɒfə(ɹ)//ˈɔfɚ/

offer noun: a proposal that has been made. Also the agent noun of off.

Noun

offer (plural offers)

  1. A proposal that has been made.
    • What's in his offer?
    • I decline your offer to contract.
  2. Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered.
    • His offer was $3.50 per share.
  3. An invitation to enter into a binding contract communicated to another party which contains terms sufficiently definite to create an enforceable contract if the other party accepts the invitation.
    • His first letter was not a real offer, but an attempt to determine interest.

Verb

offer (third-person singular simple present offers, present participle offering, simple past and past participle offered)

  1. (intransitive) To propose or express one's willingness (to do something).
    • She offered to help with her homework.
  2. (transitive) To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest.
    • Everybody offered an opinion.
  3. (transitive) To place at someone’s disposal; to present (something) to be either accepted or turned down.
    • He offered use of his car for the week.
    • He offered his good will for the Councilman's vote.
    Synonyms:
    extend
    1. (transitive) To present (something) for sale.
  4. (transitive) To present (something) to God or gods, as a gesture of worship or as a sacrifice.
    • Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus xxix:36
  5. (transitive) To present (something) to the sight etc.; to provide for use, consideration etc.
    • The city offers beautiful architecture.
    Synonyms:
    offer up, showcase
  6. (transitive) To place (something) in a position where it can be added to an existing mechanical assembly.
    • The next stage is to remove and replace the top part of the right side lip, and offer the lid to the car to ensure all the shapes and gaps are okay.2009, Roger Williams, Triumph TR2, 3, 3A, 4 & 4A
  7. (transitive) To bid, as a price, reward, or wages.
    • I offered twenty dollars for it. The company is offering a salary of £30,000 a year.
  8. (intransitive) To happen, to present itself.
    • The occasion offers, and the youth complies.1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
    • The opportunity however did not offer till next morning, for Phœbe did not come to bed till long after I was gone to ſleep:1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 72
  9. (obsolete) To make an attempt; typically used with at.
    • I will not offer at that I cannot master.a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount...
    • He would be offering at the shepherd's voice.1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC
  10. (transitive) To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive or defensive way; to threaten.
    • to offer violence to somebody
    • The peasants offered no resistance as they were rounded up.

Proper noun capitalized: Offer

Offer (plural Offers)

  1. A surname.

Also used as

offer is also the agent noun of off.

offer meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

offer in Hindi

proposal
प्रस्ताव prastāv, पेशकश peśkaś
something put forth
प्रस्ताव prastāv
propose
प्रस्ताव करना prastāv karnā

offer in Tamil

சலுகை

offer in Marathi

proposal
प्रस्ताव prastāv
propose
प्रस्ताव करणे prastāv karṇe

offer in Urdu

proposal
پیشْکَش peśkaś, پرَسْتاو prastāv
More languagesFewer languages
offer in Bengali
অফার, অফার করা
offer in Telugu
ఆఫర్
offer in Malayalam
ഓഫർ, ഓഫർ നൽകുന്നു
offer in Kannada
ಆಫರ್
offer in Punjabi
ਪੇਸ਼ਕਸ਼, ਪੇਸ਼ਕਸ਼ ਕਰੋ, ਪੇਸ਼ਕਸ਼ ਕਰਨਾ
offer in Gujarati
ઓફર, ઓફર કરો, ઑફર કરો
offer in Odia
ଅଫର, ଅଫର୍
offer in Assamese
যাচ zas
offer in Pashto
پېشنهاد pešnehād, وړانديز wṛāndiz
offer in Tagalog
alok
offer in Arabic
اِقْتِرَاح iqtirāḥ, قَدَّمَ qaddama, اِقْتَرَحَ iqtaraḥa
offer in Indonesian
tawaran
offer in Thai
ข้อเสนอ kɔ̂ɔ-sà-nə̌ə, เสนอ sà-nə̌ə
offer in Vietnamese
lời đề nghị, chào hàng, lời mời, bày bán
offer in Myanmar
ကမ်းလှမ်း kam:hlam:

Examples of offer in a sentence

  • One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...
  • Much was I disappointed upon learning that the little packet for Nantucket had already sailed, and that no way of reaching that place would offer, till the following Monday.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London...
  • [W]ithout offering at any other Remedy, without taking time to conſider the Conſequences, or to reflect on our own Condition, we haſtily engaged in a War which hath coſt us ſixty Millions; […]1711 December 8 (Gregorian calendar), [Jonathan Swift], The Conduct of the Allies, and of the Late Ministry, in Beginning and Carrying on...
  • Here Jones, after expressing the utmost uneasiness, offered to stop her mouth:—“Hey-day! why sure, Mr Jones, you will let me speak; I speaks no scandal, for I only says what I heard from others […]1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

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Synonyms of offer

Forms of offer

Noun
pluraloffers
alternative formoffre
alternative pronunciation-spellingoffa
Verb
third-person singular presentoffers
present participleoffering
past participleoffered
pastoffered
Proper noun
pluralOffers

Past tense of offer: offered

Plural of offer: offers

Origin of offer

From Middle English offer, from Old English offrian (“offer or make a sacrifice”) rather than from Old French offre (“offer”), from offrir (“to offer”), from Latin offerō (“to present, bring before”). Compare North Frisian offer (“sacrifice, donation, fee”), Dutch offer (“offering, sacrifice”), German Opfer (“victim, sacrifice”), Danish offer (“victim, sacrifice”), Icelandic offr (“offering”). See verb below.

From Middle English offren, offrien. In the religious senses inherited from Old English offrian (“to offer, sacrifice, bring an oblation”); otherwise from Old French ofrir. Both ultimately from Latin offerō (“to present, bestow, bring before”, literally “to bring to”), from Latin ob + ferō (“bring, carry”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”), later reinforced by Old French offrir (“to offer”). Cognate with Old Frisian offria (“to offer”), Old Dutch offrōn (“to offer”), German opfern (“to offer”), Old Norse offra (“to offer”). More at ob-, bear.

From off + -er.

Words formed from offer

Phrases with offer

Words that rhyme with offer

Questions about offer

What does offer mean?
Offer means a proposal that has been made.
What is offer in Hindi?
Offer in Hindi is प्रस्ताव (prastāv), पेशकश (peśkaś), प्रस्ताव करना (prastāv karnā). See Offer meaning in Hindi.
How do you use offer in a sentence?
One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements.
What part of speech is offer?
Offer can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce offer?
Offer is pronounced /ˈɒfə(ɹ)/ (UK).
What is the plural of offer?
The plural of offer is offers.

Words near offer in the dictionary

  1. offensively
  2. offensiveness
  3. offensivenesses
  4. offensives
  5. offensivity
  6. offer
  7. offer a knee
  8. offer affordances
  9. offer curve
  10. offer curves
  11. offer of proof

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Adapted from Wiktionary: offer (page history and authors); Offer (page history and authors); offer (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); offer (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); offer (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); offer (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); offer (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); offer (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); offer (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); offer (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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