offer

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Estimated CEFR level: A2 — Elementary

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Definition

  1. noun the verbal act of offering
  2. noun something offered (as a proposal or bid)
  3. noun a usually brief attempt

Etymology

From Middle English offer, from Old English offrian (“offer or make a sacrifice”) rather than from Old French offre (“offer”), from offrir (“to offer”), from Latin offerō (“to present, bring before”). Compare North Frisian offer (“sacrifice, donation, fee”), Dutch offer (“offering, sacrifice”), German Opfer (“victim, sacrifice”), Danish offer (“victim, sacrifice”), Icelandic offr (“offering”). See verb below.

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