contract offer
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- noun
- /ˈkɒntrækt ˈɔːfər/
- Formal
:
oferta de contrato
- When Jeremy Lin signed a contract offer with Houston, the Knicks had to decide whether to keep their young point guard.
- reject a contract offer
- receive a contract offer
- make a contract offer
Examples
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I've never seen anybody act so insulted by getting a huge contract offer before.
Blog text (23) -
Multiple sources are reporting that the Milwaukee Brewers have made a contract offer to pitcher Zack Greinke in an effort to retain him for future seasons.
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When she asked for some sort of compensation for those items and was told that this was the best contract offer, she decided to walk.
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It's a contract offer to market Brand Earth on an interstellar scale.
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I have read that Hostess management made this final five-year contract offer.
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As Cousineau prepared to move to Buffalo, his agent became incensed at the contract offer the Bills made.
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As presented, the only difference between the contract offers was that CCSD called for teachers to take three furlough days, while CCEA proposed that teachers would only take two.
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Extend a multi-year contract offer to Kevin Ollie to be the men's coach at UConn.
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However, due to the intricacies with the NBA's Collective Bargaining Agreement (the "CBA"), the Jazz were unable to make a contract offer to Millsap that approximated what he and his agent felt was his market value.
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American Airlines' pilot union leaders rejected the carrier's latest contract offer and made their own counterproposal.
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an official proposal to hire under specified terms' is directly derivable from combining 'contract' (a written agreement) with 'offer' (a formal proposal); the phrase simply specifies the type of offer. This compositional noun–noun pattern is common in English and other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand it.
Etymology
The phrase contract offer may come from the simple image of someone holding out a written paper with the work terms and asking the other person to sign. The contract is the written deal and the offer is the act of giving it, so the phrase now means 'an official proposal' to hire someone.