Proffer
verb
To present or offer something to someone for acceptance.
She proffered her hand in greeting.
Often appears as...
- proffer advice
- proffer help
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Formal
noun
A proposal offered for acceptance or rejection.
His proffer was met with silence.
Often appears as...
- accept a proffer
- reject a proffer
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Formal
verb
To present or offer something to someone for acceptance.
She proffered her hand in greeting.
Often appears as...
- proffer advice
- proffer help
Usage tips
Formal
noun
A proposal offered for acceptance or rejection.
His proffer was met with silence.
Often appears as...
- accept a proffer
- reject a proffer
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Voluntary Gesture
Used when someone willingly offers something without being asked or forced.
He proffered his assistance when he saw her struggling with the packages.
Pro Tip 2/3Initial Interaction
Common in situations where someone is trying to initiate a relationship or conversation.
During the meeting, she proffered a few ideas to kickstart the brainstorming session.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Persuasion
Often implies a gentle or tactful method of offering, suggesting persuasion rather than demand.
He proffered his opinion in such a humble way that it was well received.
Pro Tip 1/3Voluntary Gesture
Used when someone willingly offers something without being asked or forced.
He proffered his assistance when he saw her struggling with the packages.
Pro Tip 2/3Initial Interaction
Common in situations where someone is trying to initiate a relationship or conversation.
During the meeting, she proffered a few ideas to kickstart the brainstorming session.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Persuasion
Often implies a gentle or tactful method of offering, suggesting persuasion rather than demand.
He proffered his opinion in such a humble way that it was well received.
Pro Tip 1/3Voluntary Gesture
Used when someone willingly offers something without being asked or forced.
He proffered his assistance when he saw her struggling with the packages.
Pro Tip 2/3Initial Interaction
Common in situations where someone is trying to initiate a relationship or conversation.
During the meeting, she proffered a few ideas to kickstart the brainstorming session.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Persuasion
Often implies a gentle or tactful method of offering, suggesting persuasion rather than demand.
He proffered his opinion in such a humble way that it was well received.
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Education has to be part of our response as well. Law enforcers are not going to enforce laws they don't know about and proffer problems they don't understand. In my research on cyberstalking,
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everything the team had noticed that there was one food that they would go all out to get hold of lovers eggs it led them to try something new for proffers eggs
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How deepfakes undermine...
Education has to be part of our response as well. Law enforcers are not going to enforce laws they don't know about and proffer problems they don't understand. In my research on cyberstalking,
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What's a Meerkat's...
everything the team had noticed that there was one food that they would go all out to get hold of lovers eggs it led them to try something new for proffers eggs
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Sam Weller
American Author
Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?
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Susan B. Anthony
American Activist
If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.
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Edmund White
American Novelist
Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.
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Hart Crane
American Poet
Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that.
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James B. Stewart
American Journalist
Various justifications for lower capital-gains rates have been proffered over the years, none of them self-evident. But even conceding the wisdom of lower capital-gains rates, why should they never be taxed at all, even as they are passed from generation to generation?
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Robert Reich
American Economist
The generosity of the super-rich is sometimes proffered as evidence they're contributing as much to the nation's well-being as they did decades ago when they paid a much larger share of their earnings in taxes.
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Michael Isikoff
American Journalist
There is simply no plausible construction of the known evidence that leaves out Novak either providing a proffer through his lawyer of what he would say if he testified or having testified directly.
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Richard Jefferies
English Writer
There are people in this servile world who will endure any trampling, and at the first beck rush delightedly to proffer their assistance.
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Sam Weller
American Author
Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?
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Susan B. Anthony
American Activist
If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period... single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.
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Edmund White
American Novelist
Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.
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Hart Crane
American Poet
Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that.
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James B. Stewart
American Journalist
Various justifications for lower capital-gains rates have been proffered over the years, none of them self-evident. But even conceding the wisdom of lower capital-gains rates, why should they never be taxed at all, even as they are passed from generation to generation?
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Robert Reich
American Economist
The generosity of the super-rich is sometimes proffered as evidence they're contributing as much to the nation's well-being as they did decades ago when they paid a much larger share of their earnings in taxes.
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Michael Isikoff
American Journalist
There is simply no plausible construction of the known evidence that leaves out Novak either providing a proffer through his lawyer of what he would say if he testified or having testified directly.
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Richard Jefferies
English Writer
There are people in this servile world who will endure any trampling, and at the first beck rush delightedly to proffer their assistance.
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