to offer a ride
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2.0
- phrasal verb
:
ofrecer un aventón
- After the event, we offered a ride to anyone who needed transportation home.
Examples
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She offered a ride to her friend after he missed the bus.
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- Uh, well, typically, you know, we offer a ride to the coroner's office.
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A car slows, stops beside them, then offers a ride.
Fiction book (2002) -
But I couldn't find you and I was offered a ride home I couldn't refuse.
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Tardiness is tolerated, but when students miss a class, professors will call to find out why and will often offer a ride or other ways to help.
Academic text (2017) -
When it started to rain, he offered a ride to the stranded hikers.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To operate a car or give someone a ride
∞
2.5
To get something from a store or give someone a ride
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to provide transportation' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'offer' (to be willing to give/provide) with 'ride' (a trip by vehicle); the article 'a' is semantically neutral. This verb + noun composition is a common, literal pattern in English and other languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The phrase offer a ride comes from the simple picture of someone opening their car door and saying 'do you want a ride', where offer means to give and ride means a short trip in a car. So it now means 'to provide transportation' to someone as a friendly favor.