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offer is a verb and noun meaning "make available or accessible, provide or furnish". It carries 16 recorded senses.
produce or introduce on the stage
“The Shakespeare Company is offering `King Lear' this month”
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”
“The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman”
threaten to do something
“I offered to leave the committee if they did not accept my proposal”
something offered (as a proposal or bid)
“noteworthy new offerings for investors included several index funds”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for offer come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.