tenderadjective
uk/ˈten.dər/us/ˈten.dɚ/tender adjective (GENTLE)
C2 gentle, loving, or kind:
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Tender & gentle
- fly
- gentle
- gently
- meek
- mild
- mild-mannered
- mildly
- soft
- soft-hearted
- softly
- tender-hearted
- TLC
- wouldn't hurt a fly idiom
tender adjective (PAINFUL)
(of part of the body) painful, sore, or uncomfortable when touched:
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Pain & painful
- -racked
- achy
- agonizing
- cluster headache
- dodgy
- earache
- hell
- hurt
- masochism
- non-ulcer stomach pain
- painful
- painfully
- rack
- racking
- shooting pains
- sore
- suffering
- throb
- torment
- wince
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tender adjective (SOFT)
C2 (of meat or vegetables) easy to cut or chew (= crush with the teeth):
Tender plants are easily damaged by cold weather.
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Pleasant to eat or drink
- ambrosia
- ambrosial
- appetizing
- cooked/done to a turn idiom
- delicious
- filling
- juicy
- lekker
- lip-smacking
- luscious
- make sb's mouth water idiom
- mouth
- quaffable
- scrumptious
- slap-up
- smooth
- succulent
- tasty
- yummy
- zesty
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tender adjective (YOUNG)
C2 literary young:
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Describing people who are young
- adolescent
- at your mother's knee idiom
- be knee-high to a grasshopper idiom
- flower
- fresh-faced
- in the flower of sb's youth idiom
- knee-high
- little
- mother
- prepubescent
- slip
- small
- teen
- time
- tweenager
- underage
- yoof
- young
- youthful
- yute
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tenderverb
uk/ˈten.dər/us/ˈten.dɚ/[ I ] If you tender for a job, you make a formal offer to do it for a stated price:
[ I ] specialized finance & economics If you tender for something such as shares, you make a formal offer to buy them for a stated price.
[ T ] formal to give or offer something:
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Applying for a job
- anoint
- applicant
- appoint
- appointed
- appointee
- appointment
- engage
- handpicked
- headhunt
- hiring
- intake
- job
- job centre
- scout
- set sb up
- step
- step into sth
- subcontract
- take sb on
- take sth on
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tendernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈten.dər/us/ˈten.dɚ/tender noun [ C ] (OFFER)
mainly UK US usually bid a written or formal offer to supply goods or do a job for an agreed price:
specialized finance & economics mainly UK US usually bid a written offer to buy or sell shares in a company
If you put work out to tender, you ask people to make offers to do it:
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Business - general words
- Age of Exploration
- B2B
- B2C
- back office
- big business
- corporate memory
- deal
- devolution
- devolve
- devolve sth to sb
- globalization
- mass market
- mass market
- nerve centre
- niche market
- offshore
- open market
- private
- private enterprise
- tertiary
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tender noun [ C ] (CONTAINER)
specialized engineering a vehicle used for transporting water, wood, or coal, especially one that is pulled behind a railway engine or used by the fire service
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Fire service
- beat
- extinguish
- fire alarm
- fire blanket
- fire brigade
- fire department
- fire drill
- fire engine
- fire hydrant
- fire marshal
- fire plug
- fire truck
- firefighting
- firehouse
- fireman
- fireproof
- firetrail
- firetrap
- flame-retardant
- quench
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tender noun [ C ] (BOAT)
specialized sailing a small boat that is used for transporting people or goods from the land to a larger boat or from the larger boat to the land:
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Boats & sailing craft
- buoy
- canoe
- catamaran
- cruiser
- dugout
- gondola
- kayak
- longboat
- motorboat
- narrowboat
- outboard motor
- pedal boat
- punt
- riverboat
- rowing boat
- sampan
- speedboat
- trimaran
- windsurfer
- yacht
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tender noun [ C ] (CHICKEN)
US a small piece of chicken breast meat, usually breaded and fried, or a cut of chicken from the tenderloin: