The word 'offing' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used when describing something that is about to happen in the near future. For example, "We are planning our vacation for the offing."
Sweeter-tasting fish meant rivers in the offing; groups of birds, homing in the evening, showed him where land lay.He began to learn all this as a baby, when his grandfather, himself a master navigator, held his tiny body in tidal pools to teach him how waves and wind blew differently from place to place.
Many usually sober commentators in Moscow now argue that a change of regime, not just of government, is in the offing.
Dozens of contracts for oil, hydropower, farming and mining projects worth billions of dollars are in the offing.
Is it a mistake for Barack Obama to make reducing inequality a priority for 2014 if there is no revolution of the proletariat in the offing?
But this time the Tigers must have been aware, in detail, of what was in the offing.
Indeed, several centrist Democrats worry that a flawed deal may well be in the offing, pushed by a Secretary of State, John Kerry, who puts extraordinary faith in his ability to make foes see reason, and a president who has set red lines in the past and then failed to enforce them.
WHEN the first whispers of Fed "tapering" set off a storm in emerging markets last year, there were lots of reasons to think a repeat of the emerging-market crises of the 1990s was not in the offing.
Mr Clinton is interested only intermittently in foreign affairs, usually when some sort of peace deal is in the offing.
Top marks for cynicism Beyond a bail-out Reprints Related items India and Pakistan: Back to jaw-jawJan 8th 2004 Pakistan's nuclear dealings: Rogues step inJan 8th 2004So now diplomatic links between Pakistan and India are fully restored, as are air links, with rail ones to return shortly and a bus service across the "line of control" in Kashmir in the offing.
A truce of sorts seems to be in the offing.
He also replaced the chief financial officer and reduced the board by one member to seven.Speculation mounted that a mega-takeover bid is in the offing for Time Warner Cable, America's second-biggest provider of cable television.
