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  • noun Plural form of offing.

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Examples

  • I honesty didn't realise that there were that many online photo editing offings about!

    Five Best Online Image Editors | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • : Is the reality will be what is going to happen on the ground next Monday and next Tuesday and next Wednesday and next month and I don't see anything that the surge is done to lead me to believe that the central purpose of the surge, which was to bring political reconciliation, meaning the Sunni stop killing the Shia and vice versa and stability to that region is anywhere in the offings.

    CNN Transcript Sep 11, 2007 2007

  • Clinton in charge, I see nothing in the offings to prevent another despot to seize complete power.

    Firedoglake » Can Republicans Put Country Before Party? 2006

  • These tumbling crested marbled seas, now slate-grey, now of a cold ultramarine, seem but the offings of those that wash his native shores; and they are peopled for him by the saltwater ghosts of his ancestors, the great navigators, who traced this road through the high seas on their voyages of adventure and discovery.

    The Way Home 2003

  • A fast food chicken chain from South Africa known just as much for its controversial ad campaigns as its spicy chicken offings is forecast to become the next major global foodservice chain to rival US-based mega chains.

    NYDN Rss 2012

  • Her watch had seen us, because the coasters generally keep better look-outs than Indiamen; the latter, accustomed to good offings, having a trick of letting their people go to sleep in the night-watches.

    Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • "Shall we then have two offings, this voyage, Captain Spike?" asked

    Jack Tier James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • I'm like the roaring flood; I'll run over my embankment and overflow, I'll tear apart mountains, exceed the offings and still gush out!

    WN.com - Articles related to European Stocks Tread Water 2010

  • I'm like the roaring flood; I'll run over my embankment and overflow, I'll tear apart mountains, exceed the offings and still gush out!

    WN.com - Articles related to European Stocks Tread Water 2010

  • Financial News, offings at Bear could exceed 10,000 and, supposedly, those being cut will receive nine months pay and one-third of last year's bonus, cash.

    Dealbreaker 2009

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