OFFERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does offering mean? 

• OFFERING (noun)
  The noun OFFERING has 4 senses:

1. something offered (as a proposal or bid)

2. money contributed to a religious organization

3. the verbal act of offering

4. the act of contributing to the funds of a church or charity

  Familiarity information: OFFERING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OFFERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something offered (as a proposal or bid)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

offer; offering

Context example:

noteworthy new offerings for investors included several index funds

Hypernyms ("offering" is a kind of...):

content; message; subject matter; substance (what a communication that is about something is about)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "offering"):

contract offer (offer by an employer to contract to pay an employee at a given rate)

marriage offer; marriage proposal; proposal; proposal of marriage (an offer of marriage)

proposition (an offer for a private bargain (especially a request for sexual favors))

counteroffer (an offer made by someone who has rejected a prior offer)

bid; tender (a formal proposal to buy at a specified price)

prospectus (a formal written offer to sell securities (filed with the SEC) that sets forth a plan for a (proposed) business enterprise)

tender offer (an offer to buy shares in a corporation (usually above the market price) for cash or securities or both)

reward (the offer of money for helping to find a criminal or for returning lost property)

rights issue; rights offering (an offering of common stock to existing shareholders who hold subscription rights or pre-emptive rights that entitle them to buy newly issued shares at a discount from the price at which they will be offered to the public later)

special (a special offering (usually temporary and at a reduced price) that is featured in advertising)

olive branch; peace offering (something offered to an adversary in the hope of obtaining peace)

twofer (an offer of two for the price of one)

Derivation:

offer (put forward for consideration)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Money contributed to a religious organization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("offering" is a kind of...):

contribution; donation (a voluntary gift (as of money or service or ideas) made to some worthwhile cause)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "offering"):

tithe (an offering of a tenth part of some personal income)

offertory (the offerings of the congregation at a religious service)

hearth money; Peter's pence (an annual contribution made by Roman Catholics to support the papal see)

thank offering (an offering made as an expression of thanks)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The verbal act of offering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

offer; offering

Context example:

a generous offer of assistance

Hypernyms ("offering" is a kind of...):

speech act (the use of language to perform some act)

Derivation:

offer (offer verbally)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The act of contributing to the funds of a church or charity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

oblation; offering

Context example:

oblations for aid to the poor

Hypernyms ("offering" is a kind of...):

gift; giving (the act of giving)

Derivation:

offer (present as an act of worship)

 Context examples 

Hunters went back on me. He gave them a bigger lay. Heard him offering it. Did it right before me. Of course the crew gave me the go-by. That was to be expected.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He had refrained from offering his "Sea Lyrics" for publication, until driven to it by starvation.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In March, with most of the solar system in earth signs, you will need to be practical when offering ideas, rather than be at your usual visionary self.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

They seemed much surprised at my appearance, but instead of offering me any assistance, whispered together with gestures that at any other time might have produced in me a slight sensation of alarm.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I pronounced his name, offering him at the same time my hand: he took it, smiling and saying, "We shall do very well by-and-by."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Oh!” said he, quite loud, and offering his hand.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

As stars rotate, their starspots come in and out of Kepler's view, offering a way to determine spin rate.

(Kepler Watches Stellar Dancers in the Pleiades Cluster, NASA)

“Will you?” said he, offering his hand.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Once a woman spoke to him, offering, I think, a box of lights.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Meg agreed at once, and promised her aid, gladly offering anything she possessed, from her little house itself to her very best saltspoons.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)