🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

oferecer

Pronunciation / Transliteration: u.feˈseɾ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Offer/ˈɒf.ər/
verbnounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #400 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Eles vêm para oferecer assistência técnica."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To present or proffer something for someone to accept or reject as so desired.

    "She decided to offer her help with the community project."
As noun
  1. 1

    An expression of readiness to do or give something, or a proposal of a price.

    "They accepted our offer on the new house within twenty-four hours."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English 'offrian' (meaning to sacrifice or present as an offering), which came from the Latin 'offerre' (ob- 'against, towards' + ferre 'to bring'). Over centuries, the religious sense of sacrifice broadened into the general commercial and interpersonal meaning of presenting something for acceptance or rejection.

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