0 past simple and past participle of offer --
1 to ask someone if they would like to have something or if they would like you to do something: --
[ + speech ] "I'll do the cooking," he offered.
[ + to infinitive ] My father offered to take us to the airport.
"Would you sell me that painting?" "What are you offering (= what will you pay) for it?"
Can I offer you (= would you like) a drink?
[ + two objects ] I feel bad that I didn't offer them any food/offer any food to them.
2 to provide or supply something: --
It doesn't have much to offer as a town - its shops are fairly poor and there's only one cinema.
Did he offer any explanation for his strange behaviour?
[ + two objects ] We are now offering you the chance to buy the complete set of pans at half price.
It says in the guide that this area offers some of the best walks in England.
It's an organization that offers free legal advice to people on low incomes.
They found that higher-dimensional splines offered significant improvements over standard discretization methods (although for dimensions higher than three, their algorithms are still very time-consuming).
At the same time, corporatist arrangements offered producers access and influence in the creation of policies that affected them directly.
Without the protection offered by college walls and communal discipline, how would scholars withstand temptations and distractions and devote themselves to higher things?
Participation in the activities offered, of course, is voluntary.
The extent to which special-care units offered specialised care varied immensely.
Few studies provided diagnostic characteristics, and all offered little discussion of patient management options as a result of undertaking such a test.
The youngest children offered virtually no non-basic terms, showing that the basic terms were learned before the non-basic terms.
Scholars of regime change have offered several complementary explanations of the empirical regularity that democratic transitions tend not to result in substantial redistribution.
