TENDER

Definition of TENDER

  1. (noun)something that can be used as an official medium of payment
  2. (noun)someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
  3. (noun)a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
  4. (noun)car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
  5. (noun)a boat for communication between ship and shore
  6. (noun)ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
  7. (verb)offer or present for acceptance
  8. (verb)propose a payment
  9. (verb)make a tender of; in legal settlements
  10. (verb)make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer
  11. (adj)hurting
  12. (adj)young and immature
  13. (adj)having or displaying warmth or affection
  14. (adj)(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
  15. (adj)(of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition
  16. (adj)given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality
  17. (adj)easy to cut or chew
  18. (adj)physically untoughened