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• present participle of offer.

offering

American  

[aw-fer-ing, of-er-] / ˈɔ fər ɪŋ, ˈɒf ər- /

noun

• offerings
  plural

1. something offered in worship or devotion, as to a deity; an oblation or sacrifice.

2. a contribution given to or through the church for a particular purpose, as at a religious service.

3. anything offered as a gift.

4. something presented for inspection or sale.

5. a sale.

   our spring offering of furniture.

6. the act of one who offers.

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offering British  

/ ˈɒfərɪŋ /

noun

1. something that is offered

2. a contribution to the funds of a religious organization

3. a sacrifice, as of an animal, to a deity

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• offerings
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of offering

First recorded before 1000; Middle English; Old English offrung; equivalent to offer + -ing ¹

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Explanation

An offering is a type of offer or bid, like the kind made in a business meeting. When you offer something—like a cookie—you're asking someone if they want it. An offering is like that: it's an offer. One type of offering is a proposal or bid made in business. A sports team could make an offering of three million dollars a year to a running back. A bidder could make an offering of one thousand dollars at an auction. An offering is a promise to pay that much if the offering is accepted.

Example Sentences

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offering offerings

Both played significant roles in offering guidance on the war, which started eight months ago.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Anthropic, in an S-1 filing last week for a planned initial public offering, previewed for investors the risk that local and state governments might adopt data-center moratoriums.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Also look into any surrender charges if you need more than 10%, and see for yourself how reliable the insurer offering the annuity is, experts said.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

Investors now question the prospects for the imminent initial public share offering from Claude-maker Anthropic, which had been tipped to surpass SpaceX's earlier this year as the biggest ever.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

Somehow it didn’t feel right for me to be the one offering to take us all to the movies.

From "Lawn Boy" by Gary Paulsen

She quotes freely from poetry in conversation, and says she keeps the poems that inspire her in an “internal Rolodex,” as offerings to colleagues and students.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

It was only a few weeks ago when AI stocks were still propelling the markets to record highs, with investors looking expectantly toward the planned initial public offerings of Anthropic and OpenAI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

The companies have their own built-in observability offerings, he noted, but they also resell Datadog’s software in their marketplaces.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

Pfizer boosts full-year guidance on the back of its latest quarter, citing growth in non-Covid offerings and acquired products.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Hibiscus petals, offerings from previous visitors, were strewn at their gray-green feet.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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