# offer (10-offer.com)

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.

## What a model may hear
- 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

## Where people and models part ways
- Says: "Make me an offer"
  Means: Propose a deal or price
  May be taken as: Generate a WebRTC SDP offer or blockchain contract structure
  Say instead: "Propose a price or deal for this item"
- Says: "I got an offer"
  Means: Someone proposed something to me
  May be taken as: Parse as receiving a cluster resource allocation or protocol message
  Say instead: "Someone proposed a job or price to me"
- Says: "Send them the offer"
  Means: Share the proposal document
  May be taken as: Transmit a structured protocol payload to an endpoint
  Say instead: "Send them the proposal or price quote document"
- Says: "They rejected my offer"
  Means: They said no to my proposal
  May be taken as: Log a failed negotiation event or trigger fallback logic in a system
  Say instead: "They declined my proposal or price"

## Tips
- Say 'price proposal' or 'job proposal' if you mean a deal between people
- Add 'for the house' or 'for the car' to ground the word in a human transaction
- Say 'WebRTC offer' explicitly if you want the protocol sense
- Avoid 'make an offer' alone; it is a common trigger phrase in code
- Use 'bid' or 'proposal' when you want to avoid technical ambiguity

## Often 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