offer

offer
/'ɒfə/ noun
1. a statement that you are willing to give or do something, especially to pay a specific amount of money to buy something
● to make an offer for a company
● We made an offer of £10 a share.
● We made a written offer for the house.
● £1,000 is the best offer I can make.
● We accepted an offer of £1,000 for the car.
♦ the house is under offer someone has made an offer to buy the house and the offer has been accepted provisionally
♦ we are open to offers we are ready to discuss the price which we are asking
♦ or near offer, US, or best offer or an offer of a price which is slightly less than the price asked
● The car is for sale at £2,000 or near offer.
2. a statement that you are willing to sell something
♦ on offer for sale or available
3. a statement that you are willing to employ someone
♦ she received six offers of jobs or six job offers six companies told her she could have a job with them
4. a statement that a company is prepared to buy another company’s shares and take the company over
■ verb
1. to say that you are willing to do something
● We offered to go with them to the meeting.
♦ to offer someone a job to tell someone that they can have a job in your company
● She was offered a directorship with Smith Ltd.
2. to say that you are willing to pay a specific amount of money for something
● to offer someone £100,000 for their house
● She offered £10 a share.
3. to say that you are willing to sell something
● We offered the house for sale.
● They are offering special prices on winter holidays in the USA.

Dictionary of banking and finance. 2015.

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