Offering

Definition: Offering

Offering

Noun

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

2. A contribution of money to a religious organization.

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

4. The act of contributing to the funds of a church or charity; "oblations for aid to the poor".

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

Date "offering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Bible

Dream Interpretation

Finance

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

Synonyms: Offering

Atonement

Amends, apology, amende honorable, satisfaction; peace offering, sin offering, burnt offering; scapegoat, sacrifice.

Giving

Bribe, bait, ground bait; peace offering, handsel; boodle, graft, grease;blat.

Alms, largess, bounty, dole, sportule, donative, help, oblation, offertory, honorarium, gratuity, Peter pence, sportula, Christmas box, Easter offering, vail, douceur, drink money, pourboire, trinkgeld, bakshish; fee; (recompense); consideration.

Gift, donation, present, cadeau; fairing; free gift, boon, favor, benefaction, grant, offering, oblation, sacrifice, immolation; lagniappe, pilon.

Gratitude

Thanks, praise, benediction; paean; Te Deum; (worship); grace, grace before meat, grace after meat, grace before meals, grace after meals; thank offering.

Mediation

Mediatization; intervention, interposition, interference, intermeddling, intercession; arbitration; flag of truce; good offices, peace offering.

Offer

Noun: offer, proffer, presentation, tender, bid, overture; proposal, proposition; motion, invitation; candidature; offering; (gift).

Adjective: offering, offered; Verb: in the market, for sale, to let, disengaged, on hire.

Pacification

Peace offering; olive branch; calumet of peace, preliminaries of peace.

Worship

Oblation, sacrifice, incense, libation; burnt offering, heave offering, votive offering; offertory.

Crosswords: Offering

We will need to make an offering. (Beyond Rangoon; writing credit: Alex Lasker; Bill Rubenstein)

I think he's offering you food (Shanghai Knights; writing credit: Alfred Gough; Miles Millar)

Are you offering to launder my clothes for me (The Lost World; writing credit: Alison Lea Bingeman)

Dear Lord, the gods have been good to me. As an offering, I present these milk and cookies (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Instead, I'm offering this money as a reward on your head -- dead or alive, it doesn't matter (Ransom; writing credit: Cyril Hume; Richard Maibaum)

Trust is what I'm offering if you trouble me. (Trouble Me; performing artist: 10,000 Maniacs)

I'm offering you the option (If You Can Do Anything Else; performing artist: George Strait)

The Offering (1966)

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

Books

• Finding the Right Words: Offering Care and Comfort When You Don't Know What to Say (reference)

• Offering the Gospel to Children (reference)

• The Cheap and Cheaper Restaurant Guide to Manhattan: More Than 100 Restaurants Offering Delicious Dining for Under $10.00 (A Spectrum Book) (reference)

• The Indians' Book: An Offering by the American Indians of Indian Lore, Musical and Narrative, to Form a Record of the Songs and Legends of Their Rac (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Directory Of Companies Offering Dividend Reinvestment Plans (reference)

• How To Prepare An Initial Public Offering (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Bach - Musical Offering in C Minor / Kuijken (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Simple Offering (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Quake: The Offering (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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

Eric Hutchins met with various restoration partners including the Lewis Berger group an engineering division that is offering pro bono services, a Town of Dennis representative, the state fisheries officer and others. The purpose of the pre restoration meeting was to assess restoration alternatives. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A Malaysian bomoh prepares a herbal offering to ward off evil spirits. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by J. Dauth..

U.S. American National Red Cross Hospital No. 5, Auteuil, France. : ARC worker offering a patient some gum. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Poster published on behalf of the Naval Rendezvous, Salem, Massachusetts, offering U.S. Navy service as an attractive alternative to the wartime military draft. Credit: NAVY.

Jocasta's offering. Credit: Library of Congress.

Robinson Crusoe and Friday talking to men offering gifts. Credit: Library of Congress.

Uncle Sam offering his hand to Allied Supreme Council. Credit: Library of Congress.

Parliament offering the crown to William III and Mary / from a picture by James Northcote, R.A. Credit: Library of Congress.

Honoring their ancestral heroes - beautiful Shinto priestess prepares the sacred carp for offering to shrine, Tokyo. Credit: Library of Congress.

Unpicked cotton lying in field in front of billboard offering to cash powder plant paychecks. Many, who in other years would be picking cotton, are now employed at the powder plant. Millington, Tennessee. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

No claim shall be made or action brought by Germany or German nationals in respect of the use during the war by the Government of any Allied or Associated Power, or by any persons acting on behalf or with the assent of such Government, of any rights in industrial, literary or artistic property, nor in respect of the sale, offering for sale, or use of any products, articles or apparatus whatsoever to which such rights applied. (reference)

We cannot afford, if we can help it, to work on narrow margins, offering temptations to a trial of strength. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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It seemed too precious an offering for any degree of publicity

He was a juggler and a traveling dentist, and was offering to the public complete sets of teeth, opiates, powders, and elixirs

His day began with an heroic offering of its every moment of thought or action for the intentions of the sovereign pontiff and with an early mass

I would have pursued my journey, but he placed himself directly in the way, yet looking with a very mild aspect, never offering the least violence

I told them that I drank at the pond, and pointed thither, offering to lend them a dipper

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Each of the current screening methods, while offering advantages, also has disadvantages. (references)

Offering CF genetic testing to the general population or to newborn infants is not recommended. (references)

The panel does not recommend offering CF genetic testing to the general population or newborn infants. (references)

Business

In February 2000, three ISPs started offering free access. (references)

Connectivity is the major obstacle in offering cable Internet. (references)

Many small retailers are offering a time-based dial-up connection. (references)

Children

Zimbabwe

The traditional practice of offering a young girl as compensatory payment in interfamily disputes continued during the year. (references)

Brazil

In 1997 only 43 percent of school districts offered special education programs, while by 1999 the percentage offering such programs had increased to 59 percent. (references)

Slovak Republic

A 1999 survey of over 7,000 children conducted by an NGO offering resources to abused children indicated that 12 percent of children are victims of sexual abuse, while 20 percent are victims of physical abuse. (references)

Civil Liberties

Ethiopia

In May the country's first private university, Unity College, began offering a 2-year diploma course in journalism and communication. (references)

Niger

The director of a private radio station operates a wireless cable television service for the capital, offering access to international channels. (references)

Uzbekistan

Human rights observers and international observers have verified that this de facto registration falls far short of offering these organizations adequate protection. (references)

Economic History

El Salvador

Sellers can get an edge by offering good service and follow-up. (references)

New Zealand

Increasingly these centers are offering on-site hospital facilities. (references)

Switzerland

Swiss international airports have stores offering duty free shopping. (references)

Human Rights

Brazil

The uniformed police also instituted a policy of "recycling" policemen involved in shootings, removing them from patrols for 6 months and offering them counseling. (references)

India

Kashmiri separatist groups maintain that many such "encounters" are faked, and that suspected militants offering no resistance are executed summarily by security forces. (references)

Korea

However, by offering international human rights organizations an identifiable official interlocutor, the Committee helped increase the ability of international human rights organizations to enter into two-way communication with the regime. (references)

Minorities

Dominican Republic

Police regulations threaten those offering transportation to illegal immigrants with confiscation of their vehicles and have discouraged taxi and bus drivers from picking up dark-skinned persons. (references)

Political Economy

SWITZERLAND

Over 50 Swiss and foreign companies are now offering fixed line services. (references)

OMAN

Overland shipments from the UAE seldom encounter problems, offering one possible solution. (references)

Trade

Sweden

All major banks are offering banking services through Internet. (references)

Bangladesh

Domestic private banks and foreign banks compete with the NCBs by offering superior service. (references)

Brazil

Many of Brazil's states have state-owned or controlled banks offering public and private banking services. (references)

Travel

Hong Kong

Hong Kong has many different types of restaurants, offering a wide variety of international foods. (references)

Belgium

Belgium is also home to an extraordinary rich media offering the broadest selection of television channels in Europe. (references)

Mexico

Mexico City has a vibrant cultural life offering concerts, opera, and theater as well as art galleries and many museums. (references)

Women

Netherlands

There is a network of 48 government-subsidized shelters offering the services of social workers and psychologists to battered women. (references)

Guyana

By February H&S had counseled 3,872 persons since it began offering counseling services in November 1995. H&S reported that 74.5 percent of its cases involved spousal abuse. (references)

Argentina

The Buenos Aires municipal government operates a small shelter for battered women and a 24-hour hot line offering support and guidance to victims of violence, but few other shelters exist. (references)

Worker Rights

Azerbaijan

Traffickers also use newspaper advertisements offering false work abroad. (references)

Thailand

Sometimes villagers see the local traffickers as friends offering a way out of poverty. (references)

Russia

Advertisements offering high paying jobs abroad to young and attractive women were extremely common. (references)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The offering or lifting up

The offering or lifting up

An offering dedicated to God

Expressions using "offering": burnt offering ♦ Drink offering ♦ heave offering ♦ initial offering ♦ initial public offering ♦ jealousy offering ♦ Meat offering ♦ offering a sacrifice ♦ offering circular ♦ offering memorandum ♦ offering prospectus ♦ offering protection ♦ offering signal ♦ peace offering ♦ position offering good prospects ♦ primary offering ♦ public offering ♦ religious offering ♦ rights offering ♦ secondary offering ♦ shelf offering ♦ sin offering ♦ thank offering ♦ Trespass offering ♦ votive offering ♦ wave offering ♦ wood offering. Additional references.

Ending with "offering": burnt-offering, guilt-offering, peace-offering, self-offering, thank-offering.

Afrikaans

aanbieding (offer, presentation, proposal, tender). (various references)

Albanian

theror (holocaust, martyr, sacrifice), sakrificë (immolation, oblation, obsecration, privation, sacrifice, sin offering), propozim (call, motion, nomination, offer, proposal, proposition, suggestion, tender), dhuratë (benevolence, bestowal, bounty, contribution, endowment, fairing, Favor, favour, gift, grant, handsel, oblation, premium, present, presentation, testimonial, token). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرصة للدراسة, ‏هبة (benevolence, bestowal, blast, boon, bounty, charity, contribution, donation, endowment, gift, grant, liberality, outburst, present, privilege, puff, waft, whiff), ‏قربان (immolation, oblation, sacrifice), ‏عرض (array, bid, breadth, broaden, demo, display, evince, exhibit, expose, exposition, exposure, feature, hang, hang out, hold out, imply, indication, introduction, lineup, mount, offer, 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), ‏ذبيحة (sacrifice), ‏إقتراح (feeler, instance, motion, offer, proposal, proposition, suggestion, vote), ‏شىء معروض للبيع. (various references)

Bulgarian 

жертвоприношение (immolation, oblation, sacrifice), жертва (casualty, fall guy, fool, immolation, mug, oblation, patsy, prey, sacrifice, victim), предлагане (bid, supply), пожертвувание (contribution, donation, gift, oblation), дарение (beneficence, donation, dower, endowment, gift, grant, oblation), дар (blessing, boon, bounty, donative, drink offering, endowment, gift, oblation, pledge, present, presentation). (various references)

Chinese 

提供 (documented, Offered, Provide, Provided, Providing), 奉現 . (various references)

Czech

vybrané peníze, nabídka (bid, offer, overture, proposal, proposition, quotation, quote, tender), dar (bounty, donation, gift, Hansel, present, settlement). (various references)

Danish

offentligt tilbud (issue for general subscription, offer to the public, public offer, public offering), offentlig emission (issue floated publicly, issue to the public, public issue, public offering, public underwriting, publicly issued), offentlig udbydelse (issue for general subscription, offer to the public, public offer, public offering), offentligt ombytningstilbud (exchange offer, exchange offering, public exchange offering), offentligt udlagt emission (issue floated publicly, issue to the public, public issue, public offering, public underwriting), ONP-grundtjeneste (ONP core offering), optagelse paa boersen (going public, initial public offering, introduction on a stock exchange), offentlig udstedelse (issue floated publicly, issue to the public, public issue, public offering, public underwriting), tilbydesignal (offering signal), afmelding af et tog (offering of a train, train offering), aktietildelingsdag (offering day), børsintroduktion (going public, initial public offering, introduction on a stock exchange), børsnotering med tilhørende emissionsbetingelser (initial public offering), boersprospekt (introduction prospectus, offering circular, placement memorandum, placing memorandum, prospectus), emissionsprospekt (issue prospectus, offering memorandum, offering prospectus, prospectus), informationsnotat (introduction prospectus, offering circular, placement memorandum, placing memorandum, prospectus), introduktion paa boersen (going public, initial public offering, introduction on a stock exchange), kaldesignal (call letters, call sign, calling signal, identification, offering signal), lukket offentligt udbud (initial public offering), udstedelse af tegningsretter (rights offering), specialrude,der yder beskyttelse mod slagpåvirkninger (special glazing offering protection against attacks), advisering om by opkald (trunk offering), tilbud om transit (trunk offering), vaerdipapirer udbudt offentligt (issue for general subscription, offer to the public, public offer, public offering), tilbud om ledning (trunk offering), tegningsprospekt (issue prospectus, offering memorandum, offering prospectus, prospectus), tegningsindbydelse (issue prospectus, offering memorandum, offering prospectus, prospectus), prospekt (flyer, folder, issue prospectus, offering memorandum, offering prospectus, prospectus), registrering af nyemission uden udbud af hele emissionen (shelf offering), sekundært salg (secondary offering), shelf offering (shelf offering), nyemission (primary offering). (various references)

Dutch

oproepsignaal (alert, calling signal, offering signal), ONP-basisaanbod (ONP core offering), openbaar aanbod (issue for general subscription, offer to the public, public offer, public offering), openbaar bod tot omwisseling (exchange offer, exchange offering, public exchange offering), openbare aanbieding (issue for general subscription, offer to the public, public offer, public offering), openbare uitgifte (issue floated publicly, issue to the public, public issue, public offering, public underwriting), opschakelen (break-in, busy override, call offering, circuit-entering, cut-in, intrusion, precedence, pre-emption, right of way), opschakelsignaal (offering signal), openbare emissie (issue floated publicly, issue to the public, public issue, public offering, public underwriting), uitgifteprospectus (issue prospectus, offering memorandum, offering prospectus, prospectus), beursintroductie (going public, initial public offering, introduction, introduction on a stock exchange), directe notering (initial public offering), emissieprospectus (issue prospectus, offering memorandum, offering prospectus, prospectus), hoofdlijnaanbod (trunk offering), inschrijvingsdatum (offering day), introductie op de beurs (going public, initial public offering, introduction on a stock exchange), netwerkoproep (trunk offering), vast openbaar bod (initial public offering), prospectus (prospectus), uitgifte van rechten (rights offering), uitgifte in schijven (shelf offering), beursgang (initial public offering), toelatingsprospectus (introduction prospectus, offering circular, placement memorandum, placing memorandum, prospectus), vragen van een trein (offering of a train, train offering), publieke uitgifte (issue floated publicly, issue to the public, public issue, public offering, public underwriting), prospectus van uitgifte (issue prospectus, offering memorandum, offering prospectus, prospectus), primaire uitgifte van aandelen (primary offering), veiligheidsglas tegen overvallen (special glazing offering protection against attacks). (various references)

Finnish

uhri (prey, sacrifice, victim). (various references)

French

offrande. (various references)

German

opfergabe (oblation, sacrifice), opfer (casualty, immolation, oblation, prey, price, sacrifice, victim, victims), vorstellung (association, conceivability, concept, conception, house, idea, illusion, image, imagination, interview, introduction, notion, perception, performance, picture, play, presentation, show, showing, vision), kollekte (collect, collecte, collection, offertory), gabe (administering, bounty, dispensation, donation, dose, gift, present), anbietend (offerring, proffering, propositioning, tendering, volunteering). (various references)

Greek 

προσφορά (bid, offer, offertory, presentation, proffer, quotation, tender), θυσία (immolation, sacrifice). (various references)

Hebrew 

מת� �" (bribe, donation, gift, largess, present), מ� ח�" (gift, minhah, oblation, present, sacrifice, tribute), תקרובת (gift, refreshment), תרומ�" (contribution, donation, endowment, gift, oblation), קרבן (gift, sacrifice, victim, vow), �"בא�" (bringing, quotation), �"צע�" (bed making, offer, presentation, proposal, proposition, suggestion, tender), � �"ב�" (alms, charity, donation, handout, largess). (various references)

Hungarian

felajánlás (dedication, offertory). (various references)

Indonesian

tawaran (bargain, bid), selamatan (offertory), penawaran (tender), kurban (pious gift). (various references)

Italian

offerta (bid, bidding, donation, offer, offered, supply, tender). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

奉納 (dedication, oblation, presentation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そなえもの, そなえ (guarding, preparation, provision), きょうりょう (bridge, narrow-mindedness), くもつ, ささ�'もの (sacrifice), ほうのう (dedication, oblation, presentation), け�"のう (authority, donation, function, power, presentation), へい�"う (abreast, at the same time, balance, closing a school, concurrent, equalization, equilibrium, even scale, occurring together, parallel, parallelism, shut mouth, side by side, tribute). (various references)

Korean 

� �안 (Offer, suggestion). (various references)

Manx

toyrtys (boon, contribution, delivery, donation, endowment, grant, present, subvention), ourallagh (offertory, sacrificial, victim), oural (altarage, collection, immolation, offertory, sacrifice), garral. (various references)

Pig Latin

offeringay.(various references)

Portuguese

oferta (bid, bidding, dole, donative, gift, oblation, offer, overture, present, presentation, proffer, proposal, proposition, quotation, sale, tender), oferenda (offer), oferecimento (offer, proffer, proposal), contribuição (aid, cess, contribution, co-operation, due, excise, tax, tribute). (various references)

Romanian

ofrandã (alms, donation, gift, holocaust, homage, offerings, sacrifice), ofertant (bidder, bidding, offerer), ofertã (bid, offer, proffer, proposal, proposition, supply, tender), sacrificiu (immolation, sacrifice), propunere (call, motion, offer, proffer, proposal, proposition, recommendation, suggestion, tender), prinos (gift, oblation, sacrifice, tribute), jertfã (host, oblation, prey, price, sacrifice, victim), dãruire (ability, abnegation, dealing out, dedication, devotedness, donation, self denial). (various references)

Russian 

предложение (isolated sentence, marriage proposal, offer, proposal, proposition, sentence, suggestion, suggestion that, tender, theorem), предлагать предложение (offer, proffer, propose), пожертвование (donation, endowment, mortification), подношение (testimonial). (various references)

Scottish

tairgse (offer), tìodhlac (gift, present). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pružanje (stretch), poklon (bounty, dole, donative, gift, handout, handsel, obeisance, present), nuđenje, dar (dole, gift, talent), žrtvovanje (immolation, oblation, offertory, sacrifice, victimization), žrtva (casualty, patsy, prey, sacrifice, victim). (various references)

Spanish

ofrenda (gift, oblation, sacrifice). (various references)

Swedish

erbjudande (offer, proffer, proposition, quotation). (various references)

Turkish

teklif (bargain, bid, motion, offer, overture, proffer, proposal, proposition, resolution, suggestion, tender), sunuş (feature, presentation, presentment, submission, submittal), kurban (fall guy, fatality, holocaust, martyr, oblation, patsy, peace offering, prey, sacrifice, sacrificial, stiff, sufferer, victim), kilisede toplanan para (offertory), bağış (benefaction, bestowal, bounty, contribution, donation, donative, endowment, gift, grant, largess, largesse, offer, pittance), adak (oblation, offer, threat, vow). (various references)

Ukrainian

жертвоприношення (immolation), жертва (immolation, oblation, prey, sacrifice, victim), підношення, пропонування (bidding), пропозиція (offer, proffer, proposal, proposition, question), пожертвування (alms, benefaction), пожертва (endowment, subscription). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự tiến đ�" biếu, sự tặng (bestowal, donation, presentation), sự hiến (proffer), sự dâng (proffer, rise, risen, surrender), sự cúng, sự biếu (donation, proffer), lễ vật, đ�" tiến sự đề nghị, đ�" tặng (donative, present, presentation), đ�" cúng. (various references)

Welsh

offrwm (oblation). (various references)

ma�-da-ri-a, siskur, zur. (various references)

anathema, anathemate, charitas, dona, donativum, doni, donis, donisque, dono, donorum, donum, holocaustum, munera, munere, muneribus, muneris, munerum, munus, oblatio, oblatione, oblationem, oblationes, oblationibus, oblationis, pollicitas, vitualamen. (various references)

râtayô, zaothra. (various references)

lac, offrung. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "offering": offerings. (additional references)

Words ending with "offering": coffering, goffering, proffering, reoffering. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Offering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: goffering, hoffiying, offerring, offsring. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: foreign, griffon, reffing.

-2 letters: eringo, finger, fringe, goffer, goniff, griffe, ignore, niffer, offing, region.

-3 letters: feign, fifer, finer, fogie, forge, genro, giron, gofer, gonef, goner, gonif, grief, griff, groin, infer, irone, offer, reign, renig.

-4 letters: ergo, fern, fief, fife, fine, fino, fire, firn, foin, fore, frig, froe, frog, gien, girn, giro, goer, gone, gore.

+1 letter: coffering, goffering, offerings.

+2 letters: forefinger, forfeiting, forfending, officering, proffering, reoffering.

+3 letters: afforesting, forefeeling, forefending, forefingers, overruffing.

+4 letters: efflorescing, fireproofing, overstaffing, overstuffing, refortifying.

+5 letters: flameproofing, reafforesting.