Verb

To provide assistance to (someone or something).

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)

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To contribute in some way to.

To provide assistance.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)

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To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can .

Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To present (something) to God as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.

*Bible, (w) xxix. 36

*:Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement.

(lb) To place (something) in a position where it can be added to an existing mechanical assembly.

*2009 , Roger Williams, Triumph Tr2, 3, 3a, 4 & 4a

*:The next stage is to remove and replace the top part of the right side lip, and offer the lid to the car to ensure all the shapes and gaps are okay.

(lb) To propose or express one's willingness (to do something).

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(lb) To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest.

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(lb) To place at someone’s disposal; to present (something) to be either accepted or turned down.

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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

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(lb) To bid, as a price, reward, or wages.

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(lb) To happen, to present itself.

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:The occasion offers , and the youth complies.

*1749 , (John Cleland), (w) , Penguin 1985, p.64:

*:The opportunity, however, did not offer till next morning, for Phoebe did not come to bed till long after I was gone to sleep.

(lb) To make an attempt; used with at .

*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

*:I will not offer at that I cannot master.

*(w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)

*:He would be offering at the shepherd's voice.

*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

*:without offering at any other remedy

(lb) To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten.

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