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
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
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
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
Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.
Sai Baba
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
Jane Austen
If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.
Elizabeth Taylor
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
Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.
Morihei Ueshiba
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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