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offer
English
Alternative forms
- offre (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??f?(?)/, /???f?(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??f?/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /??f?/
- Rhymes: -?f?(?), -??f?(?)
- Hyphenation: of?fer
Etymology 1
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 offer? (“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.
Noun
offer (plural offers)
- A proposal that has been made.
- Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered.
- (law) An invitation to enter into a binding contract communicated to another party which contains terms sufficiently definite to create an enforceable contract if the other party accepts the invitation.
Derived terms
- make an offer
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English offren, offrien, from Old English offrian (“to offer, sacrifice, bring an oblation”), from Latin offer? (“to present, bestow, bring before”, literally “to bring to”), from Latin ob + fer? (“bring, carry”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?er-, *b?r?- (“to carry, bear”), later reinforced by Old French offrir (“to offer”). Cognate with Old Frisian offria (“to offer”), Old Dutch offr?n (“to offer”), German opfern (“to offer”), Old Norse offra (“to offer”). More at ob-, bear.
Verb
offer (third-person singular simple present offers, present participle offering, simple past and past participle offered)
- (intransitive) To propose or express one's willingness (to do something).
- (transitive) To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest.
- (transitive) To place at someone’s disposal; to present (something) to be either accepted or turned down.
- 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.
- (transitive) To present (something) to God or gods as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Exodus xxix. 36
- Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Exodus xxix. 36
- (transitive, engineering) To place (something) in a position where it can be added to an existing mechanical assembly.
- (transitive) To bid, as a price, reward, or wages.
- (intransitive) To happen, to present itself.
- The occasion offers, and the youth complies.
- (obsolete) To make an attempt; typically used with at.
- 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain
- I will not offer at that I cannot master.
- 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain
- (transitive) To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten.
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the to-infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Related terms
- offering
- offertory
- oblate
- oblation
Translations
Etymology 3
off +? -er
Noun
offer (plural offers)
- (used in combinations from phrasal verbs) agent noun of off
Anagrams
- offre, reffo
Danish
Noun
offer n (singular definite ofret or offeret, plural indefinite ofre)
- sacrifice
- victim
Inflection
Derived terms
- slagteoffer
- ofre
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??f?r/
- Hyphenation: of?fer
- Rhymes: -?f?r
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch offere, from Old Dutch [Term?].
Noun
offer n (plural offers, diminutive offertje n)
- sacrifice
- victim
Derived terms
- brandoffer
- offeren
- plengoffer
- reukoffer
- slachtoffer
- zoenoffer
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
offer
- first-person singular present indicative of offeren
- imperative of offeren
Latin
Verb
offer
- second-person singular present active imperative of offer?
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse offr
Noun
offer n (definite singular offeret, indefinite plural offer or ofre, definite plural ofra or ofrene)
- a sacrifice
- a victim, a casualty
Derived terms
- dødsoffer
- selvmordsoffer
References
- “offer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse offr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?r/ (example of pronunciation)
Noun
offer n (definite singular offeret, indefinite plural offer, definite plural offera)
- a sacrifice
- a victim, a casualty
Derived terms
- dødsoffer
References
- “offer” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse offr.
Pronunciation
Noun
offer n
- sacrifice
- victim
Declension
Anagrams
- Roffe
Welsh
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin offerenda.
Pronunciation
- (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /??f?r/
- (North Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /??far/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /?o?f?r/, /??f?r/
Noun
offer f (plural offerau or offeriau or offrau)
- equipment
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command
English
Etymology
From Middle English commanden, commaunden, comaunden, comanden, from Old French comander (modern French commander), from Vulgar Latin *commandare, from Latin commendare, from com- + mandare, from mand? (“I order, command”). Compare commend (a doublet), and mandate.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k??m??nd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /k??mænd/
- Hyphenation: com?mand
Noun
command (countable and uncountable, plural commands)
- An order to do something.
- I was given a command to cease shooting.
- The right or authority to order, control or dispose of; the right to be obeyed or to compel obedience.
- to have command of an army
- power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.
- he had command of the situation
- England has long held command of the sea
- a good command of language
- A position of chief authority; a position involving the right or power to order or control.
- General Smith was placed in command.
- The act of commanding; exercise or authority of influence.
- 1851, Herbert Spencer, Social Statics, p. 180
- Command cannot be otherwise than savage, for it implies an appeal to force, should force be needful.
- 1851, Herbert Spencer, Social Statics, p. 180
- (military) A body or troops, or any naval or military force, under the control of a particular officer; by extension, any object or body in someone's charge.
- Dominating situation; range or control or oversight; extent of view or outlook.
- (computing) A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform a specific task.
- (baseball) The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches.
- He's got good command tonight.
- A command performance.
- 1809, Dorothy Jordan, letter, cited in Claire Tomalin, Mrs Jordan's Profession, Penguin 2012, p. 220:
- Atkinson […] had hinted to me that the Duke of Richmond was so delighted with my acting that he should not be surprised if there was a second command.
- 1809, Dorothy Jordan, letter, cited in Claire Tomalin, Mrs Jordan's Profession, Penguin 2012, p. 220:
Translations
See also
- imperative mood
References
- Command on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
command (third-person singular simple present commands, present participle commanding, simple past and past participle commanded)
- (transitive, intransitive) To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.
- The soldier was commanded to cease firing.
- The king commanded his servant to bring him dinner.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Revenge
- We are commanded to forgive our enemies, but you never read that we are commanded to forgive our friends.
- (transitive, intransitive) To have or exercise supreme power, control or authority over, especially military; to have under direction or control.
- to command an army or a ship
- (transitive) To require with authority; to demand, order, enjoin.
- he commanded silence
- 2013, Louise Taylor, English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing (in The Guardian, 20 August 2013)[1]
- The reasons for this growing disconnect are myriad and complex but the situation is exacerbated by the reality that those English players who do smash through our game's "glass ceiling" command radically inflated transfer fees.
- (transitive) to dominate through ability, resources, position etc.; to overlook.
- Bridges commanded by a fortified house. (Motley.)
- (transitive) To exact, compel or secure by influence; to deserve, claim.
- A good magistrate commands the respect and affections of the people.
- Justice commands the respect and affections of the people.
- The best goods command the best price.
- This job commands a salary of £30,000.
- (transitive) To hold, to control the use of.
- The fort commanded the bay.
- Two wooden bridges led across the river; each was commanded by a fortified house
- December 1699, Joseph Addison, letter to William Congreve
- One [side] commands a view of the finest garden.
- 1834, The Hobart Town Magazine (volume 2, page 323)
- […] they made considerable progress in the art of embalming the wild fruits of their native land, so that they might command cranberries and hindberries at all times and seasons.
- (intransitive, archaic) To have a view, as from a superior position.
- (obsolete) To direct to come; to bestow.
Synonyms
- (give an order): decree, order
Translations
Derived terms
References
- command in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “command”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000
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