{
  "id": "offers.proposal",
  "term": "offers",
  "sense": "proposal",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "exchange",
  "domain": "transaction",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to give something to a person so they may take it",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "give.transfer",
      "take.acquisition",
      "people.social"
    ],
    "interaction": "the giver gives a thing while the receiver is able to take it, forming a proposal",
    "novel_properties": [
      "proposal structure",
      "mutual readiness between giver and receiver",
      "social offer dynamic"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, Tesla offered 10,000 employees stock options valid for ten years.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux 2.6 kernel offered modules to load drivers dynamically at runtime.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "During the 1948 Berlin Airlift, Allied planes offered food and fuel to West Berliners daily for 15 months.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "give.transfer",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "offers are a kind of give"
    },
    {
      "id": "take.acquisition",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "offers enable the receiver to take"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "menu.list",
    "seller.commercial"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "offer",
    "offered",
    "offering",
    "offers"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Definition was factually wrong — original definition described a general transfer, not a proposal. A proposal specifically involves social agents and the possibility of acceptance, which requires 'peo"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-offers.proposal"
}