offering

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1 AFIRSTa book, play, piece of music etc that someone has written recently 新近完成的作品

the latest offering from Nanci Griffith

南希•格里菲思的最新作品

2. RRGIVEsomething that is given to God 供品，祭品

3. something that is given as a present to please someone 礼品，礼物

Examples from the Corpus

offering• Nor will it keep Century 21 offerings off major Internet real-estate networks.• Therapeutics Inc. is planning an offering of 2 million shares of common stock.• Though initial offerings in a handful of years did buck this trend, they did so by tiny amounts.• the latest offering from Disney's Buena Vista studios• It follows four major initial public offerings of such search firms in the last three months.• Between the two, there's a warm goat cheese croquette with beet tartare, oysters Rockefeller, and other seductive offerings.• Internet stock offerings are taking anxious investors on a roller coaster of ups and downs, and Yahoo!• The Taligent offering is a 32-bit operating environment being built from scratch around a new object model.• The lunch menu includes some tempting vegetarian offerings.

From Longman Business Dictionary

offeringof·fer·ing /ˈɒfərɪŋˈɒː-, ˈɑː-/ noun [countableC usually singular]

1a product or service sold by a company, or a number of these considered as a group

Like most new high-tech products when they first hit the market, its latest offering (=its most recent product) won’t be cheap.

The company broadened its offering (=made more products available) of home health-care products.

2FINANCE an occasion when shares, bonds etc are made available for sale, or the amount involved

The bank plans to raise $1.25 billion in a stock offering later this month.

Proceeds of the share offering will be used to reduce the company’s debt.

Nomura Securitiesunderwrote (=arranged) the offering.

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