(US) The option given to children to refuse up to two items offered as part of a federally subsidized school lunch or breakfast without the meal-service operation losing the federal reimbursement for the meal.

A religious sacrifice. / An offering or concession made to an adversary in the hope of obtaining peace or reconciliation; an olive branch.

(biblical, religion) A slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin. / (by extension) Any sacrifice to a deity or deities, or to the deceased in such a way.

(Judaism) A voluntary Jewish offering lifted up before the Lord by the priest.

plural of heave offering

plural of wave offering

(Judaism, historical) An ancient Jewish custom of moving the hands in succession towards the four points of the compass in presenting certain offerings; opposed to the heave offering, in which the hands were only lifted up and lowered.

plural of love offering

(Christianity) Money collected from members of a congregation by passing a plate during the religious service.

(religion, Judaism, Christianity) An offering of food, especially of a cake made of flour with salt and oil.