An unconditional offer by one party to a contract to perform his or her part of the agreement; made when the offer or believes the other party will breach to establish the offeror’s right to sue if the other party doesn’t accept it. Also called: Tender Offer or Tendering Performance.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
tender (adjective)1.
a) having a soft or yielding texture easily broken, cut, or damaged - delicate fragile tender feet
b) easily chewed - succulent
2.
a) physically weak not able to endure hardship
b) - immature young children of tender age
c) incapable of resisting cold not hardy - tender perennials
3.
marked by, responding to, or expressing the softer emotions - fond loving a tender lover
4.
a) showing care - considerate solicitous tender regard
b) highly susceptible to impressions or emotions - impressionable a tender conscience
5.
a) appropriate or conducive to a delicate or sensitive constitution or character - gentle mild tender breeding tender irony
b) delicate or soft in quality or tone - never before heard the piano sound so tender Elva S. Daniels
6.
obsolete - dear precious
7.
a) sensitive to touch or palpation - the bruise was still tender
b) sensitive to injury or insult - touchy tender pride
c) demanding careful and sensitive handling - ticklish a tender situation
d) of a boat easily tipped by an external force
obsolete - consideration regard
transitive verb
1.
to make tender - soften weaken
2.
intransitive verb
archaic to regard or treat with - tenderness to become tender
transitive verb
1.
to make a tender of
2.
intransitive verb
to present for acceptance - offer tendered my resignation to make a bid or tender
1.
an unconditional offer of money or service in satisfaction of a debt or obligation made to save a penalty or forfeiture for nonpayment or nonperformance
2.
an offer or proposal made for acceptance as
a) an offer of a bid for a contract
b) - tender offer
3.
something that may be offered in payment , specifically - money
one that as - tends
a) (1) a ship employed to attend other ships (as to supply provisions)
(2) a boat for communication or transportation between shore and a larger ship
(3) a warship that provides logistic support
b) a car attached to a steam locomotive for carrying a supply of fuel and water
an often breaded strip of usually breast meat - chicken tenders , also the of a chicken - tenderloin
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
tender (adjective)1.
easily injured without careful handling
SYNONYMS:
delicate, fragile, frail, sensitiveRELATED WORDS:
breakable, brittle, crushable, eggshell, frangible, friable; feeble, flimsy, puny, slight, soft, tenuous, weak; nonhardy, perishable, resistless, susceptible, unresistant, vulnerable, yieldingNEAR ANTONYMS:
durable, firm, flinty, hard, hardy, resistant, robust, rugged, solid, sound, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial; infrangible, nonbreakable, unbreakable; hardened, inured, strengthened, tempered, toughened2.
feeling or showing love
SYNONYMS:
adoring, affectionate, devoted, fond, tender, tenderheartedRELATED WORDS:
caring, compassionate, considerate, cordial, doting, forgiving, friendly, humane, kind, understanding, warmhearted; ardent, fervent, impassioned, passionate, warm; amatory, amorous, erotic ( erotical); enamored, infatuated, lovesick; lovey-dovey, mushy, romantic, sappy, sentimental; brotherly, fatherly, motherly, sisterlyNEAR ANTONYMS:
aloof, antisocial, cold-eyed, cool, detached, distant, dry, frosty, hard-hearted, indifferent, offish, pitiless, remote, reserved, standoffish, unbending, uncaring, unfeeling; disaffected, unconcerned, uninvolved; cold, frigid, unfriendly; callous, cold-blooded, hard-boiled, heartless, pitiless, ruthless, soulless, unromantic, unsentimental3.
having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others
SYNONYMS:
beneficent, benevolent, benignant, compassionate, good-hearted, kind, kindhearted, kindly, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, warmheartedRELATED WORDS:
attentive, considerate, solicitous, thoughtful; affable, amicable, benign, companionable, comradely, cordial, friendly, genial, gentle, good, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, mild, neighborly, nice, pleasant, sweet, warm; clement, forbearing, forgiving, lenient, merciful, soft; patient, pitying, tolerant, understanding; altruistic, brotherly, charitable, freehanded, generous, greathearted, humanitarian, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, noble, openhearted, philanthropic ( philanthropical), selfless, unselfish, unsparing; anticruelty, cruelty-freeNEAR ANTONYMS:
ironhearted, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, stonyhearted; inconsiderate, insensitive, thoughtless, uncaring, unthinking; grim, hard-boiled, harsh, heavy-handed, severe, stern, tough, unsentimental; hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, virulent; antihumanitarian, uncharitable4.
lacking bodily strength
SYNONYMS:
asthenic, debilitated, delicate, down-and-out, effete, enervated, enfeebled, faint, feeble, frail, infirm, languid, low, prostrate, prostrated, sapped, slight, soft, softened, tender, unsubstantial, wasted, weakened, wimpish, wimpyRELATED WORDS:
challenged, disabled, incapacitated, invalid; paralyzed; broken-down, decrepit; impotent, powerless; breakable, flimsy, fragile; dizzy, groggy, rocky, unsteady, woozy; drained, exhausted, flagging, tired, weary, worn-out; damaged, harmed, hurt, impaired, injured, lame, unsound; resistless, susceptible, unresistant, vulnerable, yieldingNEAR ANTONYMS:
able-bodied, athletic, beefy, brawny, fit, husky, muscular, sinewy, strapping, virile; hard, hardy, lusty, red-blooded, robust, sturdy, tough; fortified, hardened, inured, strengthened, toughened; energetic, energized, invigorated, vigorous, vitalized; hale, healthy, sound; capable, competent; convalescing, recovering, recuperating5.
not harsh or stern especially in nature or effect
SYNONYMS:
balmy, benign, bland, delicate, light, mellow, mild, nonabrasive, soft, soothing, tenderRELATED WORDS:
calm, pacific, peaceful, placid, quiet, serene, tranquil; clement, compassionate, easy, lenient, merciful; buffering, cushioning, emollient, softening; sleek, slick, smoothNEAR ANTONYMS:
exquisite, fierce, intense, powerful, severe; forceful, forcible, savage, violent; roughened, rugged, strong; abrading, irritating, roughening; grim, gruff, rude, stiff; heavy-handed, oppressive, pitiless, tyrannical ( tyrannic)something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment
SYNONYMS:
bread, bucks, cabbage, cash, change, chips, coin, currency, dough, gold, green, jack, kale, legal tender, lolly, long green, loot, lucre, moola ( moolah), needful, pelf, scratch, shekels ( sheqels shekelim shekalim sheqalim), tender, wampumRELATED WORDS:
coinage, specie; dead presidents [], folding money, paper money, scrip; banknote, cashier's check, check, draft, money order, note, promissory note; bill, dollar, greenback; bankroll, capital, finances, funds, roll [], wad, wallet; chump change, dibs [], dime, mite, peanuts, pittance, shoestring; big bucks, bomb [], boodle, bundle, earth, fortune, king's ransom, megabucks, mint, packet [], pile, pot; abundance, means, opulence, riches, treasure, wealth; resources, wherewithal; mad money, petty cash, pin money, pocket money, spending moneyto put before another for acceptance or consideration
SYNONYMS:
extend, give, proffer, tender, trot outRELATED WORDS:
pose, propose; hold out; give in, submit; volunteerNEAR ANTONYMS:
accept, receive, take; accredit, approbate, approve, authorize, clear, confirm, finalize, formalize, homologate, OK ( okay), ratify, sanction, warrant; decline, deny, disallow, disapprove, negative, reject, turn down, veto; rebuff, rebut, refuse, spurn; retract, withdraw; disregard, ignore, neglect, overlook
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