anoffermade by acompanytoitsshareholdersinvitingthem tobuynewsharesin thecompanyat afixedprice, which isnormallylowerthan theusualprice:Thecompanyplanstoraisecashfor theacquisitionthrough anopenofferof 30 million newshares.(Definition ofopen offerfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofopen offer
open offerThere cannot be a moreopenofferthan that.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0She was a woman of the world, and guessed that anyopenofferof sympathy would be resented by the child's guardian.FromProject GutenbergUnder the management'sopenoffer, the increase would have been well over 11 per cent., which would not be bad going for an interim increase.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I have specially in mind the variant referred to as theopenoffercontract.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0But the authorities have said that, in their view, this would give the teachers in the financial year 1970–71 substantially more than theiropenoffer.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0That is anopenofferto him.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0For instance, a user arrives late in the night in some foreign city and wants to know which restaurants are still open offering some particular kind of food.From theCambridge English CorpusThe open offers no shelter; between the lines luck alone preserves a man; a soldier is merely a naked babe pitted against an armed gladiator.FromProject GutenbergThe "open offers"and the"group offers" together have accounted for just over one-fifth of the total.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0The conventions provide for "without prejudice" offers to be made higher than open offers, with a view to trying to secure agreement.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/open-offer##
