offer

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Giving, providing and supplying
accommodate
accommodate someone with something
administer
administration
afford
arm someone with something
be good for somethingidiom
dish
hand something around
hand something back
hand something down
hand something in
outfit
provision
re-equip
re-equipment
reassign
reassignment
rebid
render

Examples of proffer

proffer
Only after some moments was an answer proffered.
No totally satisfactory explanation appears to have been proffered for this situation.
He proffers, then, a dialogical socio-technical-musical assemblage, one that models diplomacy and the 'antiauthoritarian impulse in improvisation'.
The popular theme of a close relationship between father and successor is apparent in the baby's posture, leaning towards the patriarch and proffering some flowers.
Figure 2 tabulates each of the key decision points and issue areas against possible reasons for behaviour as proffered by theories covered in this paper.
The commentary upon contemporary societies that the values of villa life proffer acts as a check to the hubris of contemporary culture.
Furthermore, only one candidate is ever proffered which violates only this constraint.
As a result, the caller proffers her name without delay, in turn 10.
The framework of pedagogical support proffered by government, however, shades into authoritarian control.
My problem, however, is with some of the solutions the book proffers.
The entire first half of the book is devoted to a novel analysis of the ambient environment and the information it proffers the observer.
A few of the reasons for the failure to realise these expectations are proffered below.
They all show, to varying degrees, that parties, governments, and other political actors have proffered apparently simplistic and muddled solutions to important problems.
Documents, dates, places and names are freely proffered when asked.
More often, however, we respond to proffered interpretations or requests for clarification by directly elaborating on the intended meaning.
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