Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who offers, in any sense of that word, or presents for acceptance; one who sacrifices or dedicates in worship; one who offers a proposal, or makes a bid or tender.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship.

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  • noun One who offers.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection

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Examples

  • a seal of divine forgiveness, that the offerer is supposed, all at once, to remember that some brother has a just cause of complaint against him through breach of this commandment in one or other of the ways just indicated.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Your thought processes, though, are so narrowed and directed along the lines of distrust and borderline paranoia that when offered an alternative view that doesn't involve sedition, intrigue, and nebulus entities, your first reaction is to label the offerer as something they aren't.

    News Not Fit to Print: US Coup Planned for Venezuela? 2007

  • This is no doubt the reason why in the Jehovistic legislation tithe and first fruits are not both demanded, but only a gift of the first and best of corn, wine, and oil, left to the free discretion of the offerer, which is conjoined with the firstling of cattle and sheep

    Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

  • If the offerer were the high priest, the captain said, “My Lord, High Priest, offer the incense.”

    Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880

  • It is obvious, from the varying scale of these voluntary sacrifices, that the disposition of the offerer was the thing looked to -- not the costliness of his offering.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • As greeter and "hand sanitizer offerer," I had the pleasure of welcoming our guests, of smiling at them, and I had the chance to look each one in the eye and to think about what sometimes seems a dramatic cliché: "every face has a story."

    Dorian de Wind: Homeless in America -- on Memorial Day Dorian de Wind 2011

  • As greeter and "hand sanitizer offerer," I had the pleasure of welcoming our guests, of smiling at them, and I had the chance to look each one in the eye and to think about what sometimes seems a dramatic cliché: "every face has a story."

    Dorian de Wind: Homeless in America -- on Memorial Day Dorian de Wind 2011

  • I will offerer my guidance upon request because I consider my self a pie-getting veteran.

    Carol Muske-Dukes: The Rules According to a Fraternity "Cocksman" Carol Muske-Dukes 2011

  • I will offerer my guidance upon request because I consider my self a pie-getting veteran.

    Carol Muske-Dukes: The Rules According to a Fraternity "Cocksman" Carol Muske-Dukes 2011

  • "We have sought and received confirmation from the offerer that the proposal for privatization remains unaffected by the decision of the company to amend and restate its previously reported accounts," Hutchison Telecom Chairman Canning Fok said in a statement.

    Hutchison Unit Restates Profit Lorraine Luk 2010

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