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offer | American Dictionary

offer verb (AGREE TO GIVE)

[ I/T ]

to ask someone if he or she would like to have something or would like you to do something:

[ T ] Can I offer you (= Would you like) something to drink?

offer verb (PROVIDE)

(Definition of offer from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

offer | Business English

to ask someone if they would like to have something or if they would like you to do something:

offer sb a job/promotion She was offered a job in Singapore but turned it down.

a situation in which someone asks if you would like to have something or if you would like them to do something:

take up/agree to/accept an offer I took up his offer of help with my presentation.

I'll give you $50, and that's my final offer.

make/put in an offer on sth They made an offer on a house downtown.

on (special) offer especially UK

Everything in the store is on offer for this week only.

Examples of offer

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Particularly troubling to us is that no means is offered for determining at what time(s) a given parameter reflects either planning or control.

The oboe, on the other hand, offers very little for the eye, though some players attempt to compensate for this with grand gestures.

In this sense there are two distinct philosophical perspectives offered here.

Their participation, which is offered gratis, is based purely on their commitment to the development of science in the subregion.

The local press company may offer publications that cross-subsidize the provision of political information that supports the state.

They reported being interested in what was being offered without having any pre-existing intention to take up these offers.

Let me offer an example from some past research.

Ultrasonography offers excellent spatial resolution, portability, and lack of ionizing radiation and the need for transport.

This may mean booking a private room for them to complete a questionnaire, offering refreshments, or reducing other factors of burden such as parking.

Political economists and political scientists have offered a plethora of explanations for why competition in laxity remains rare in environmental and consumer policy.

She nonetheless stresses that models can offer substantive theoretical knowledge of the world.

We wish to clarify these and welcome the chance her commentary provided to offer aspects of the social situation surrounding the case we presented.

The story, as it has been told, offers them 'a usable past' that should help them to cope with future change.

They felt they had some personal control over their symptoms and that treatment could offer some control.

Her chapter offers a detailed and informative account of these case studies.