tender

What is the Definition of tender?

Noun:

1. something that can be used as an official medium of payment
2. someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
3. a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
4. car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
5. a boat for communication between ship and shore
6. ship that usually provides supplies to other ships

Verb:

1. offer or present for acceptance
2. propose a payment
3. make a tender of; in legal settlements
4. make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer

Adjective:

1. given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality
2. hurting
3. young and immature
4. having or displaying warmth or affection
5. easy to cut or chew
6. physically untoughened
7. (used of boats)
8. (of plants)

How can I use tender in a sentence?

Other meanings of tender (synonyms, cognates).