Vocabulary
Proffer
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
hold out or put forward (something) to someone for acceptance.
Urdu meaning
پیش شدہ، نذر کرنا،
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Pakistan`s resurgent strategic relevance to greater powers will proffer economic and political safeguards, and test the validity of our geo-economic play.
- The findings rip to shreds the argument Israel`s powerful Western friends proffer to justify the genocide: that Tel Aviv is acting in self-defence.
- As the principal economic adviser at the Ministry of Finance at the time, I can perhaps proffer a somewhat fuller, and more balanced, account of the underpinnings of the seventh NFC Award.
Synonyms
offer, tender, present, extend, give, submit, volunteer, suggest, propose
Antonyms
refuse, withdraw
Curator example
“she proffered a glass of wine”
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