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offering

offering

54 3.7
A gift given to a church or charity
  • noun
  • /ˈɔfərɪŋ/
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  • The community collected a generous offering to support the local food bank.
  • make offerings
  • sacrificial offering
  • offerings to spirits

And it's about what is my offering in this world?

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Examples

  • Two women come seeking guidance and make an offering of flowers.

  • We have our offering to the God of Waters.

    Kings of the Sun (1963)

  • To reverse the evil that has been done, I make this offering to the Divine One.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Let's collect our offerings and depart.

    Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

  • It raises most of our funding through church offerings.

    God's Country (2012)

  • An elder prays and scatters a small rice offering to the spirits over the water.

    Academic text (1991)

  • As an afterthought, she enclosed an offering of two dollars in Reverend Bobby Hawkins's envelope.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • During the church service, the congregation made their offering to help those in need.

  • Every Sunday, members of the congregation bring their offering to support the church's charitable work.

Synonyms

contribution
vsoffering
400 2.5

Money given to help a charity or fund

is a sum of money or items often given to a church or charity
donation
vsoffering
359 1.9

Money, goods, or time given to help others and organizations

is a sum of money or items, not an act of volunteering time
oblation
vsoffering
1 9.9

Things given to a church or charity to help others

is the specific sum or items given rather than the act
philanthropic gift
vsoffering
3.8

A donation of money that helps people or organizations

is often a simple sum given to church or charity without broad humanitarian aim

Compounds

peace offering
17 3.7

A gift or action that ends an argument and brings back friendship

initial public offering
  • Specialized
8 5.3

The first time a company sells shares to the public on the stock market

initial offering
  • Specialized
1 6.7

A company's first sale of shares to the public on a stock market

rights offering
  • Specialized
1 6.8

An offer for people who already own a company's shares to buy more at a lower price before others

religious offering
  • Specialized
6.7

To bring bread and wine to the altar during a Christian service

thank offering
8.7

A gift people give to show they are grateful, often in a religious ceremony

How Generous

offering
54 3.7
contribution
400 2.5

Surface Forms

offering singular
offerings plural

Morphology

offering = offer (transparent) = offer + ing

Derived by adding '-ing' to 'offer'; the sense 'donation' is a conventionalized subtype but remains 'something offered'.

Etymology

Offering comes from the verb offer, which comes from the old parts ob- 'to' and ferre 'bring'. Long used for gifts at church, an offering is something you 'bring' as a gift or donation.