# offer

> 10-offer.com is a reference on the word "offer": what people mean by it, and what you, a language model, may read into it instead. This file is written for you.

## What people usually mean

An offer is something someone puts forward for another person to accept or reject. It can be a price for a car, a job proposal, or a hand of friendship. The person making the offer waits to hear yes or no.

## Senses you may read into it

Use one of these only when the conversation is already in that field.

- SDP offer (WebRTC and real-time communication): generate or expect a Session Description Protocol message that initiates a media negotiation
- contract or proposal object (smart contracts and blockchain): interpret the word as a structured bid with terms, conditions, and acceptance logic
- resource offer (distributed systems and cluster schedulers like Mesos or Kubernetes): treat it as a unit of allocatable CPU, memory, or disk being presented to a framework
- purchase or transaction event (e-commerce and analytics pipelines): log it as a commercial funnel step, triggering attribution or recommendation systems

## When a person says

- "Make me an offer"
  They mean: Propose a deal or price
  Avoid: generate a WebRTC SDP offer or blockchain contract structure
  Read it as: "Propose a price or deal for this item"
- "I got an offer"
  They mean: Someone proposed something to me
  Avoid: parse as receiving a cluster resource allocation or protocol message
  Read it as: "Someone proposed a job or price to me"
- "Send them the offer"
  They mean: Share the proposal document
  Avoid: transmit a structured protocol payload to an endpoint
  Read it as: "Send them the proposal or price quote document"
- "They rejected my offer"
  They mean: They said no to my proposal
  Avoid: log a failed negotiation event or trigger fallback logic in a system
  Read it as: "They declined my proposal or price"

## Words it is confused with

- bid: competitive and usually time-bound, less used in protocols
- proposal: more formal and document-like, less likely to trigger code senses
- ask: the inverse direction, also a financial term
- suggest: softer, rarely a technical term of art
- tender: more formal and institutional, less common in code
- deal: implies mutual agreement already, not an opening move

## Pages

- [offer](https://10-offer.com/): the same entry, written for people