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Offer

Definitions: Offer

Offer

Noun

1. The verbal act of offering; "a generous offer of assistance".

2. Something offered (as a proposal or bid); "noteworthy new offerings for investors included several index funds".

3. A usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl".

Verb

1. Make available or accessible, provide or furnish; "The conference center offers a health spa"; "The hotel offers private meeting rooms".

2. Present for acceptance or rejection; ; "She offered us all a cold drink".

3. Agree freely; "She volunteered to drive the old lady home"; "I offered to help with the dishes but the hostess would not hear of it".

4. Put forward for consideration; "He offered his opinion".

5. Offer verbally: "extend my greetings"; "He offered his sympathy".

6. Make available for sale; "The stores are offering specials on sweaters this week".

7. Propose a payment; as at sales or auctions; "The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting".

8. Produce or introduce on the stage; "The Shakespeare Company is offering "King Lear" this month".

9. Present as an act of worship; "offer prayers to the gods".

10. : mount or put up; "put up a good fight"; "offer resistance".

11. : make available; provide; "extend a loan"; "The bank offers a good deal on new mortgages".

12. : ask (someone) to marry you; "he popped the question on Sunday night"; "she proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months".

13. : threaten to do something: "I offered to leave the committee if they did not accept my proposal".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "offer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Offer

DomainDefinitions

Economics

1. A proposal that is made to a certain individual or legal entity to enter into a contract, that is definite in its terms, and that indicates the offerer's intent to be bound by an acceptance. 2. With respect to securities, the price at which one is ready to sell. (references)

Finance

An expression of a willingness to sell something at a given price; opposite of bid. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Offer

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

Offer

EnglishOFFICE OF ELECTRICITY REGULATIONN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Offer

Synonyms: crack (n), fling (n), go (n), offering (n), pass (n), whirl (n), bid (v), extend (v), offer up (v), pop the question (v), proffer (v), propose (v), provide (v), put up (v), tender (v), volunteer (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Offer

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Giving

Tip, bribe; tickle the palm, grease the palm; offer; sacrifice, immolate.

Sale

Verb: sell, vend, dispose of, effect a sale; sell over the counter, sell by auction; Noun: dispense, retail; deal in; sell off, sell out; turn into money, realize; bring to the hammer, bring under the hammer, put up to auction, put up for auction; offer for sale, put up for sale; hawk, bring to market; offer; undersell.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Offer

English words defined with "offer": contract offermarriage offertender offer. (references)
Specialty definitions using "offer": Jump at an Offeroffer documents, offer to purchasetake-over offer. (references)
Etymologies containing "offer": huckParentationSubinduceTendryVenditation. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Offer" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (bestow, cause, offer, present), Norwegian (victim), Swedish (immolation, offering, sacrifice, sacrificial, victim, victims).

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Modern Usage: Offer

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You offer it to me freely? (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. (The Godfather; writing credit: Francis Coppola and Mario Puzo. Based on the novel by Mario Puzo.)

I've got ten bucks in my pocket and nothing to offer you, and I know that. (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron)

Yours could become an important voice in the new order, second only to my own! I offer you a chance for greatness, Jor-El, take it! (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

I do, I offer a complete and utter retraction. (A Fish Called Wanda; writing credit: John Cleese; Charles Crichton)

Lyrics

To offer nothing since you moved. (Missing; performing artist: Everything But The Girl; writing credit: Ben Watt)

She has got so much to offer (Hey Leonardo (She likes me for me); performing artist: Blessid Union Of Souls)

But I can't offer you proof (Shake Your Love; performing artist: Debbie Gibson)

Offer up my heart and soul (Burn; performing artist: Jo Dee Messina)

And I offer you my soul (Blaze Of Glory; performing artist: Jon Bon Jovi)

Clever

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Those with the best advice usually offer no advice. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Make Me an Offer (1966)

Kärlekslivets offer (1944)

Kärlekens offer (1944)

Ole Opfinders offer (1924)

Privatdetektivens offer (1913)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Offer

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Seductive Offer (reference)

  • Bafo: (Best and Final Offer) (reference)

  • Cash Copy: How to Offer Your Products and Services So Your Prospects Buy Them (reference)

  • Marital Love and Hate: The Need for a Revised Marriage Contract and a More Honest Offer by the Marriage Counselor to Teach Couples to Love and Hate, (reference)

  • The Offer (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Bishop Paul Morton, Sr. & the Greater St. Stephen Mass Choir: We Offer Christ (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

  • Delta 28-299A "Limited Edition" 14" Band Saw includes mobile base, dust connectors, rip fence a $200 Value and a $50 Coupon Offer (reference)

    (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Offer

Illustrations:
Offer

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Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Offer

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

This photo of death cigarettes (JNCI, May 20 1992 "Death Cigarettes Offer Truth in Advertising", Mathews, J.).Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Colorful parasols offer ladies stylish protection from harmful rays of sun.Credit: CDC.

Recreational fishing headboats at Belmar Marina offer day trips.Credit: Fisheries.

Switchgrass pasture in Union County, Iowa. Native grasses including switchgrass offer pasture for cattle in mid-summer when cool season pastures such as bluegrass are less productive.Credit: Lynn Betts.

Streams without conservation buffers run higher risks of streambank erosion, contamination with farm chemicals, and sedimentation, as well as offer no habitat for wildlife.Credit: Lynn Betts.

A corn-eastern gamagrass hybrid. Eastern gamagrass is a native grass with a gene pool that has a lot to offer corn, including resistance to cold and insects, as well as tolerance to drought and flood. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Microbiologist Diana Whipple (left) and animal caretaker Katy Lies offer treats to a white-tailed deer being used to study tuberculosis in its wild counterparts. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

Nursing means the offer of loving care and attention when it is most needed. / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by J. Mohr..

A magnificent offer to a magnificent officer.Credit: Library of Congress.

The last offer of reconciliation in remembrance of Prest. A. Lincolns. "The door is open for all".Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Offer

AuthorQuotation

Bhagavad Gita

Offer unto me that which is very dear to thee -- which thou holdest most covetable. Infinite are the results of such an offering.

George Washington

If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove. How can we afterwards defend ourselves?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!

Hosea Ballou

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

J. August Strindberg

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

Oscar Wilde

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Virgil

Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Offer

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

They will wish, and seek for the opportunity, which in the change, weakness and accidents of human affairs, seldom delays long to offer itself. (Second Treatise of Government)

Communist Manifesto

1848

Since the development of class antagonism keeps even pace with the development of industry, the economic situation, as they find it, does not as yet offer to them the material conditions for the emancipation of the proletariat. (reference)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Germany hereby agrees to offer no objection to any proposals of the Central Rhine Commission for extending its jurisdiction: (1) to the Moselle below the Franco-Luxemburg frontier down to the Rhine, subject to the consent of Luxemburg; (2) to the Rhine above Basle up to the Lake of Constance, subject to the consent of Switzerland; (3) to the lateral canals and channels which may be established either to duplicate or to improve naturally navigable sections of the Rhine or the Moselle, or to connect two naturally navigable sections of these rivers, and also any other parts of the Rhine river system which may be covered by the General Convention provided for in Article 338 above. (reference)

Winston S. Churchill

1946

There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace." Let no man underrate the abiding power of the British Empire and Common-wealth. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

John F. Kennedy

1961

To our sister republics south of our border, we offer a special pledge --to convert our good words into good deeds--in a new alliance for progress--to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Offer

TitleAuthorQuote

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Carroll, Lewis

Criticisms have, however, reached me from private sources, to some of which I propose to offer a reply.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Citizens, let us offer the protest of corpses.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Asked Davin if he might offer him some refreshment.

Time Enough for Love

Robert Heinlein

Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

She had held her own with a shrill ferocious religiosity that was as lecherous and as savage as anything Grampa could offer.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

When they make us an offer, is it wise to say, We will think of it?

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Offer

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Your local or state health department may be able to offer you counseling. (references)

Low-intensity programs may offer little more than drug education and admonition. (references)

Many health guides offer glossaries of technical or uncommon terms in an appendix. (references)

Business

Both offer good technology. (references)

Automobile dealers usually offer installed car alarms. (references)

Condominiums are also starting to offer such amenities. (references)

Children

Algeria

Legal experts maintain that the Penal and Family Codes do not offer children sufficient protection. (references)

Canada

Nonetheless, a general consensus among the media, NGO's, and civil society considered the offer fair and the case closed. (references)

Angola

The campaign was designed to improve children's access to government services and to offer greater protection against underage recruitment into the armed forces; the campaign continued during the year. (references)

Civil Liberties

South Africa

The media offer a broad range of news, opinion, and analysis. (references)

Egypt

The Constitution requires schools to offer religious instruction. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Public schools offer religious education classes, which, in theory, are optional. (references)

Economic History

Portugal

Presently, 23 companies offer Internet access. (references)

Iran

The Iranian Government has not accepted this offer. (references)

Bangladesh

Some fax/phone retailers also offer e-mail services. (references)

Human Rights

Russia

NGO's and religious groups offer other support. (references)

Peru

Barreto's family accepted the Government's offer. (references)

Russia

Some regions offer assistance in the form of food, clothing, and medicine. (references)

Indigenous People

Bolivia

Indigenous groups have taken advantage of the Popular Participation Law to form municipalities that offer them greater opportunities for self-determination. (references)

Minorities

Burma

Even in ethnic minority areas, primary and secondary state schools did not offer instruction in the local ethnic minority language, even as a second language. (references)

Political Economy

BOLIVIA

Banks offer dollar accounts and make loans in dollars. (references)

Political Rights

Zimbabwe

Since 1997 the NCA, an umbrella organization comprising most of the country's important civil society groups, has advocated the creation of a new constitution that would reduce the power of the presidency and offer greater protection for civil liberties. (references)

Trade

Portugal

Commercial banks also offer project financing. (references)

Kazakhstan

Many larger banks offer personal banking services. (references)

Travel

Mexico

Worldwide telephone service offer good connections. (references)

Uae

In a meeting, the host will offer tea or coffee upon arrival. (references)

Panama

All large hotels offer American, European, and local cuisine. (references)

Women

Morocco

She may offer her husband money to agree to a divorce (known as a khol'a divorce under Islamic law). (references)

Egypt

Several NGO's offer counseling, legal aid, and other services to women who are victims of domestic violence. (references)

Honduras

Six private centers for battered women offer legal, medical, and psychological assistance, but not physical shelter. (references)

Worker Rights

Brazil

Previously, only state-linked training institutions could offer apprenticeship programs. (references)

Peru

In practice, companies offer financial compensation instead of reinstatement as the legislation allows. (references)

Moldova

In many areas, friends or acquaintances approach young women and offer them help to get good jobs abroad. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

EVERLASTING, adj. Lasting forever. It is with no small diffidence that I venture to offer this brief and elementary definition, for I am not unaware of the existence of a bulky volume by a sometime Bishop of Worcester, entitled, A Partial Definition of the Word "Everlasting," as Used in the Authorized Version of the Holy Scriptures. His book was once esteemed of great authority in the Anglican Church, and is still, I understand, studied with pleasure to the mind and profit of the soul.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Offer

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Barry Manilow

Not at that time. But I was pushing my song writing. I wanted other people to record my songs. And I got an offer to record my own songs as a singer. And I did, I accepted it, because nobody else seemed to be recording my songs.

Halle Berry

Jinx found me, actually. I got a call from Barbara Broccoli and MGM and they wanted to make an offer. So I got the script. And I was excited initially. I loved Bond movies and I'd even loved the women of Bond movies and I thought, Let me read it.

Lin Wood

They've used polygraphs on some individuals, I'm told. The Ramseys did not accept their offer to take an FBI polygraph.

Phil McGraw

That's right. And so you have got to say I feel like damaged goods here. I feel like I don't have anything good to offer. I'm unclean and impure. That's because of what he did to me and I want my power back. I'm not going to live that way.

Rush Limbaugh

On Meet the Press, Madam Albright pretty much admitted that the Clinton people blew it by not taking Sudan's offer to turn over bin Laden to the United States.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Offer

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Washington

1789-1797Our fisheries and the transportation of our own produce offer us abundant means for guarding ourselves against this evil.

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809Contemplating the union of sentiment now manifested so generally as auguring harmony and happiness to our future course, I offer to our country sincere congratulations.

Abraham Lincoln

1861-1865As a general rule, I abstain from reading the reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I can not properly offer an answer.

Herbert C. Hoover

1929-1933Its acceptance should pave the way to greater limitation of armament, the offer of which we sincerely extend to the world.

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953The Congress has made it possible to offer valuable inducements to those who are eligible for enlistment.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974I do not offer a life of uninspiring ease.

Gerald Ford

1974-1977To achieve this we must offer the American people greater incentives to invest in the future.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981We must improve the flexibility of our transportation system and offer greater choice and diversity in transportation services.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Tonight, it is democracies that offer hope by feeding the hungry, prolonging life, and eliminating drudgery.

George Bush

1989-1993Every school must offer the kind of disciplined envorionment that makes it possible for our kids to learn.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Offer

"Offer" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 44.42% of the time. "Offer" is used about 14,695 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)44.42%6,5271,483
Noun (singular)37.91%5,5711,765
Lexical Verb (base form)17.63%2,5903,523
Noun (proper)0.03%5157,705
                    Total100.00%14,695N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Offer

The following table summarizes the usage of "offer" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
OfferLast name20031,405
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Offer

Expressions using "offer": a firm offer accept an offer attractive offer be on offer cash offer contract offer decline an offer demand and offer derisive offer embrace an offer firm offer free offer I'll make him an offer he can't refuse introductory offer job offer last minute offer make an offer marriage offer mediation offer my offer still stands offer a prayer offer a present offer a sacrifice offer a suggestion offer an apology offer an excuse offer an opinion offer as a prize offer as a reward offer battle offer documents offer for sail offer for sale offer for sale by tender offer no resistance offer of employment offer of marriage offer one's condolences offer oneself offer opposition offer pleasure offer prayers to offer price offer refreshments offer resistance offer sacrifices offer service offer smb.'s condolences offer smb.'s services offer the alternative offer to do offer to purchase offer to the public offer to those having the right of first refusal offer up offer up a victim offer up prayers offer vows on offer package offer pass an offer peace offer public offer reject an offer repel an offer sales offer special offer tender offer to submit an offer for unattractiveness of the offer what can i offer you? written offer. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "offer": offer-bid, offer-documents, offer-to-bid.

Ending with "offer": bid-offer, counter-offer, curriculum-on-offer, job-offer, late-offer, marriage-offer, pre-offer, re-offer, special-offer.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Offer

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  gift offer

2,393

  employment offer letter

57

  credit card offer

728

  movado offer watches.com womens

56

  offer

389

  absolutely country craziest in offer

49

  free offer

283

  best credit card offer

46

  offer in compromise

204

  attwireless.com offer

45

  special offer

152

  easier hand helping it offer than

40

  purchase offer

120

  drive offer test

40

  free cell phone offer

119

  cruise offer

39

  newest offer

114

  offer to purchase real estate form

38

  cell phone offer

109

  hotel special offer

37

  job offer

102

  car offer repair specialist testing we

37

  offer to purchase form

92

  tv offer

35

  offer letter

78

  fff3 nwa.com offer

35

  offer to purchase real estate

71

  code offer secret victorias

35

  cellular phone offer

69

  real estate offer

32

  job offer letter

67

  offer to buy

30

  dell4me.com offer

65

  employment offer

29

  free mobile phone offer

63

  casio offer teen watches.com

29

  deal fone free mobile offer phone

59

  offer and compromise

26

  irs offer in compromise

59

  at t mobile offer

26
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Offer

Language Translations for "offer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

bied (advance, propose, suggest, tender), aanbod (presentation, proposal, tender), voorstel (introduce, perform, present, presentation, proposal, tender), aanbieding (offering, presentation, proposal, tender), aanbied (advance, bid, give, introduce, make, make an offer of, perform, present, propose, put, suggest, tender). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

ofroj (bid, contribute, hold forth, hold out, tender), propozoj (hold forth, move, nominate, propose, slate, suggest, tender), propozim (call, motion, nomination, offering, proposal, proposition, suggestion, tender), paraqes (acquaint, bring in, bring up, delineate, demonstrate, denote, develop, display, feature, front, induct, introduce, introduce oneself, obtrude, portray, prefer, present, press, produce, propound, put, put in, recommend, render, represent, serve, show, stand for, submit), përpjekje (attempt, crack, drive, effort, endeavor, endeavour, exertion, patience, prolusion, pull, push, skirmish, stroke, try, venture, whack), përpiqem (aim, attempt, bang, endeavor, endeavour, essay, exert, exert oneself, pretend, seek, strive, take trouble, try). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏قدم قربانا (immolate), ‏قدم سيكارة, ‏قدم إقتراحا (move, trot out), ‏قدم (advance, age, antiquity, arrive, be age-old, become old, become timeworn, bring forward, bring out, chip, come, come back, display, extend, foot, get to, give in, move forward, obsolescence, peg, precede, present, produce, proffer, reach, return, set forth, show, submit, tender, turn in), ‏سعي (demarche, striving), ‏عرض للبيع (put smth. to sale, put up, release, released, sale), ‏عرض تقديم, ‏عرض سعرا, ‏عرض (array, bid, breadth, broaden, demo, display, evince, exhibit, expose, exposition, exposure, feature, hang, hang out, hold out, imply, indication, introduction, lineup, mount, offering, overture, pageant, parade, predispose, present, presentation, presenting, produce, proffer, propound, recital, retrace, review, set, set out, setting, show, state, statement, subject, submit, surrey, symptom, trot out, widen, width), ‏إقتراح (feeler, instance, motion, offering, proposal, proposition, suggestion, vote), ‏إقترح (approach, hold out, propose, proposition, put, slate, submit, suggest, vote), ‏أبدى إستعداده. (various references)

   

Aymara

  

loqtaña (to offer). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

предлагам цена, поднасяне (presentation), понечвам (make, start), поканвам (ask, bid, call in, call on, have, invite), принасям в жертва, правя опит (experiment), правя оферта (quote), поднасям (fix, help, present, serve, serve up), предлагам за продан, оферта (estimates, quotation, tender), предложение (bid, counsel, motion, proffer, proposal), представлявам (act for, make), представям (deliver, depicture, deputize, exhibit, image, impersonate, introduce, perform, present, project, put in, recommend, represent, show, stage, typify), нещо което се предлага, опитвам се (essay, give it a try, seek, try), обявявам за продан, предлагам (bid, hold forth, present, proffer, propone, propose, put forth, set up, suggest, think of, vote). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

開設 (open), 提议 (Propose, Proposed, Proposing, Proposition, Propound, Propounded, Propounding, submission), 捐助 (contribution, donation), (sacrificial offering, supply). (various references)

   

Cornish

  

profya (to offer). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nabídka (bid, offering, overture, proposal, proposition, quotation, quote, tender). (various references)

   

Danish

  

tilbyde (advance, offer up, propose, sacrifice, suggest), forslag (presentation, proposal, suggestion, tender), foreslå (advance, propose, suggest), byde (advance, offer up, propose, sacrifice, suggest). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bieden (advance, propose, suggest, tender), aanzoek (application, offer of marriage, offer of parriage, proposal, request), aanbieden (advance, bid, introduce, make an offer of, perform, present, propose, put on the stage, sacrifice, suggest, tender). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

oferto, oferti (bid, make an offer of), oferi (offer up, sacrifice), propono (proposal, suggestion), proponi (propose, suggest), proponado (tender), edziĝpropono (offer of marriage, proposal), edziĝpeto (offer of parriage). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

offra (offer up, sacrifice), vísa (ballad, ballade, chanson, indicate, introduce, point out, present, show, tender), skjóta upp (advance, propose, suggest), nevna (introduce, mention, present, tender), kunna (be able, be able to, introduce, present, tender), bjóða (advance, bid, invite, make an offer of, propose, suggest), bera fram (introduce, launch, present, tender). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پیشنهادکردن (Advance, Bid, Motion, Move, Proffer, Propose, Purpose, Submit, Suggest), پیشنهاد (Bid, Motion, Plea, Proffer, Proposal, Purpose, Tender), پیشکش کردن , پیشکش (Dedicate, Gift, Present), تقدیم داشتن (Proffer, Put, Submit), تقدیم (Presentation, Proffer), عرضه (Efficiency, Exposition, Presentation, Proffer), اراءه (Exhibition, Exposure, Presentation, Representation, Show, Showing). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

esittää (deliver, execute, express, extend, give, introduce, introduce to, present, produce, put forward, refer, render, set forth, show, state, tender). (various references)

   

French

  

offre (offering, offers), proposer, offrir (make an offer of, offer up), sacrifier (offer up), proposition (offering), présenter. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

oansiik (offer of marriage, proposal), oanbod (presentation, proposal, tender), oanbieding (presentation, proposal, tender), oanbiede (advance, bid, introduce, make an offer of, offer up, present, propose, sacrifice, suggest, tender), foarslach (presentation, proposal, tender), foarslaan (advance, propose, suggest), biede (advance, propose, suggest), ôfbyldzje (depict, introduce, present, represent, tender). (various references)

   

Galician

  

ofrecerlle (offer you). (various references)

   

German

  

anbieten (estimate, introduce, offer for sale, offers, present, proffer, quote, tender, to offer, tout, volunteer), bieten (bid, bidden, bidding, give, grant, hold forth, hold out, introduce, lay on, present, provide, show, tender, to offer, to provide), opfern (give up, immolate, make a sacrifice of, offer up, sacrifice, to sacrifice, victimize), Offerte, aussetzen (abandon, adjourn, bequeath, break off, cut out, defer, expose, fail, find fault, give out, interrupt, launch, lower, make a halt, maroon, Miss, occur intermittently, plant out, put up, release, sit out, stay, suspend, to suspend), angebot (bargain, bid, estimate, invitation, proffer, proposal, quote, range, supply, tender). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

προσφέρω (confer, donate, make an offer, offer to, pay, put up, render, subscribe, tender, utter), προσφορά (bid, offering, offertory, presentation, proffer, quotation, tender). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

הצעה (bed making, offering, presentation, proposal, proposition, suggestion, tender). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kínálat (bid, bidding, supply). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

kynna (introduce, present, tender). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

pengajuan (ignition, submission, tender), menawarkan, menawar (bargain, bid), meminang (engage, pamper), memberi (afford, impart, let, put on, vest). (various references)

   

Irish

  

thairgeann, tairiscint. (various references)

   

Italian

  

offrire (afford, bid, come up with, expose, extend, make, make an offer of, offer up, present, provide, sacrifice, serve, tender, treat), offerta (bid, bidding, donation, offered, offering, supply, tender), proporre (advance, decide, move, pop, propose, propound, raise, suggest), presentare (appear, demonstrate, give, hand in, introduce, introduce oneself, occur, perform, present, produce, propose, put, put in, render, send in, show, submit, tender). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

申込み (application, challenge, entry, overture, proposal, request, subscription), 申込 (application, challenge, entry, overture, proposal, request, subscription), 申し込み (application, challenge, entry, overture, proposal, request, subscription), 申し入れ (notice, proposal, proposition, report), 申入 (notice, proposal, proposition, report), 提供 (furnishing, program sponsoring, tender), (accompanying, attendant, companion, present, retinue, serve, submit, supply), 奉献 (consecration, dedication, presentation), (advise, encourage, recommend), オクタン価 (enthusiast, fantasy object for masturbation, geek, honor, love affair with colleague, masturbation, nerd, Occam, ocean space explorer, Oceania, octane value, octet, odometer, of course, off, off the record, offence, offense, office, office automation, office computer, office girl, office lady, office wife, officer, official, official handicap, official record, off-season, offshore, offshore center, offshore fund, off-side, Ohio, Oklahoma, okra, OL, onanism, onion, onomatopoeia, onyx, opal, opinion, opinion leader, orchestra, Oscar, oscillograph, oscilloscope, Oslo, osmium, OSPER, ostracism, ostrich, ostrich policy, Othello, Ottawa, Oxford, oxtail, ozone, ozone hole, respectable person). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

きょう (all, and, as well as, assist, bad harvest, bad luck, both, Buddhist scriptures, coerce, co-operation, correct, disaster, entertainment, evil, exposing, Hungary, including, interest, lance, long ages, neither, pleasure, plural ending, present, save, serve, submit, supply, sutra, temporary home, this day, threat, threaten, today, together with, turmoil, wickedness, with), ほうけん (consecration, dedication, feudalistic, presentation, treasured sword), かん (admiration, advise, appearance, best, building, can, cap, casket, coffin, cold season, coldest days of the year, crown, designating, diadem, emotion, emperor, encourage, farewell, feeling, first, free time, guesthouse, hall, heaven, hotel, house, impression, initiating on coming of age, inn, intuition, just, kan, leave, leisure, letter, look, love of peace, midwinter, naming, nerves, peerless, perception, pipe, recommend, reel, right, sensation, spare time, spectacle, strong, temper, the sixth sense, tin, top character radical, trunk, tube, volume, warship, writing brush), オファー , もうしいれ (notice, proposal, proposition, report), もうしこみ (application, challenge, entry, overture, proposal, request, subscription), ていきょう (furnishing, program sponsoring, tender, the capital). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

제안 (Offering, suggestion). (various references)

   

Manx

  

sheb, chebbal (bet, betting, bid, bidding, present), arral (gambit, press on, proffer). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

presentere (introduce, present, tender). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

ofrecé (bid, make an offer of, offer up, sacrifice), proposishon (presentation, proposal, tender), proponé (advance, propose, suggest), presentá (introduce, present, tender). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

offeray

   

Polish

  

przedstawiać, proponować. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

oferta (bid, bidding, dole, donative, gift, oblatory, offertory, overture, present, presentation manager, proffer, proposal, proposition, quotation, sale, tender). (various references)

   

Portuguese Brazilian

  

oferta, oferecem. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

prezenta (arise, bear, bring, carry forth, display, exhibit, expound, file, give, give in, have, hold forth, hold up, introduce, paint, picture, present, produce, put forward, put in, recommend, represent, reproduce, set forth, show, submit, tender). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

предложение (isolated sentence, marriage proposal, offering, proposal, proposition, sentence, suggestion, suggestion that, tender, theorem), предлагать (hold forth, hold out, propose, proposing, suggest, suggesting, suggests, tender, tout), приносить жертвы, пытаться (attempt, be sought to, endeavor, endeavour, have a go at, make a stab at, make an attempt, make attempt, seek, try), попытка (attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, essay, shot, tinkering, trial, try). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

tomh (aim, attempt, threaten), tairgse (offering), tairg (propose). (various references)