society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > choose for office [verb (transitive)] > offer oneself for (3)
transitive. To submit to or commit to abide by (a judgement, decision, vote, etc.); spec. to be a candidate in (a contested election). Cf. sense 12.
intransitive. To present or advance one's own claim; to offer oneself as a candidate; to enter, bid, or apply for. Formerly also (with for): †to…
to declare for: to declare oneself a candidate for; to make a bid for. Obsolete.