Offering

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Offering can mean any of the following:

• An offering is a collection of donations during worship. See also alms, tithe, charity, gift and virtue.

• An offering can mean a religious sacrifice of plant, animal or human life (blood sacrifice), or a sacrifice of precious items. An offering may also be a monetary donation, or may be of a purely spiritual nature (rational sacrifice), offering one's heart or life to God. (see also Oblation).

• An offering in Buddhism is often part of devotional practice.

• A securities offering is a discrete round of investment, usually regulated in the United States by the Securities Act of 1933. See also seed round and Initial public offering.

• Offering, a painting by Jamini Roy.

• An album made by The Carpenters in 1969, later renamed Ticket to Ride.

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