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Under offer
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Definition
offer /'ɒfǝ(r); US 'ↄ:f- / v ၁။ ~ sth (to sb) (for sth) ကမ္းလွမ္း သည္။ ေပးသည္။ She is offering a reward for the return of her lost bracelet. ❍ He offered £150 000 for the house. ❍ I've been offered a job in Japan. ❍ He offered her a cigarette. ❍ We offered him the house for $ 200 000. ၂။ ~ sth (to sb) ကမ္းလွမ္းသည္။ ေပးသည္။ I don't think they need help, but I think I should offer anyway. ❍ They offered no resistance. ❍ We offered to leave. ❍ We offered him a lift, but he didn't accept. ❍ The company offered the job to someone else. ၃။ ( rather fml ) ေပးသည္။ The job offers prospects of promotion. ❍ The trees offered welcome shade from the sun. ၄။ ~ sth/sb (up) (to sb) (for sth) ( fml ) ဆက္ကပ္ သည္။ She offered (up) a prayer (to God) for her husband's safe return. n ၁။ [C] ~ (to sb/to do sth) ကမ္းလွမ္းခ်က္။ an offer of help from the neighbours ❍ your kind offer to help ❍ an offer of marriage (ie a proposal (၂)). ၂။ [C] ~ (for sth) ေပးသည့္ေဈး၊ ကမ္းလွမ္းခ်က္ စသည္။ a firm offer (ie one that is genuine and not likely to be withdrawn) ❍ I've had an offer of £ 2 200 for the car. ❍ They made (me) an offer which I couldn't refuse. ❍ The original price was £ 3 000, but I'm open to offers (ie prepared to consider offers of less than that). See also ONO ❏ have sth to offer [ IDM ] ေပးႏိုင္စြမ္းသည္။ စြမ္းသည္။ the luxuries that a first-class hotel has to offer ❍ a young man with a great deal to offer (ie who is clever, talented, etc). ❏ offer (sb) one's hand [ IDM ] ( fml ) လက္ကမ္းသည္။ She smiled and offered her hand. ❏ offering /'ɒfǝrÇŋ; US 'ↄ:f- / n လက္ေဆာင္။ လႉဖြယ္ ပစၥည္း။ တင္ဆက္မႈ။ a church offering ❍ He gave her a box of chocolates as a peace offering (ie in the hope of ending a quarrel, etc). ❍ I don't think much of the offerings on TV these days. See also BURNT OFFERING ❏ on offer [ IDM ] ၁။ ရႏိုင္ေသာ။ vocational courses currently on offer. ၂။ ( esp Brit ) ေလွ်ာ့ေဈးျဖင့္ ရႏိုင္ေသာ။ Baked beans are on offer this week at the local supermarket. ❏ under offer [ IDM ] ( Brit ) ဝယ္ရန္ကမ္းလွမ္းထားေသာ။ The property is currently under offer.
Examples
- [offer someone something] : They haven’t offered me the job yet.
- [offer something to someone] : He had offered cocaine to an undercover police officer.
- [offer someone something for something] : I offered Jim £5
- 000 for his car.
- [offer something to someone] : Police are offering a reward to anyone with information about the crime.
- Actually
- Jen’s giving me a lift home – but thanks for offering.
- [offer to do something] : I do think you should have offered to help.
- The department offers a course on Medieval Philosophy each year.
- Smaller hotels often offer greater comfort at lower prices.
- [offer someone something] : We’ll be happy to offer you all the assistance we can.
- [have a lot to offer] : The city has a lot to offer the business traveller.
- A lot of people have offered us very useful advice.
- Susan still hasn’t offered an explanation for her absence.
- Offer sympathy/regrets/thanks
- He called the team manager to offer his congratulations.