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单词 tender
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tenderadjective

uk/ˈten.dər/us/ˈten.dɚ/

tender adjective (GENTLE)

C2 gentle, loving, or kind:

a tender look/smile
What you need is some tender loving care.

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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:

My arm was very tender after the injection.

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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):

My steak was beautifully tender.

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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Types of plant

tender adjective (YOUNG)

C2 literary young:

He was sent off to boarding school at the tender age of seven.

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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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tenderly
adverb uk/ˈten.də.li/us/ˈten.dɚ.li/
tenderness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈten.də.nəs/us/ˈten.dɚ.nəs/

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:

Five companies have tendered for the hospital contract.

[ 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:

Please tender the exact fare.
The health minister has tendered her resignation (= has offered to leave her job).

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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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Competing and contending (non-sporting)
Giving, providing and supplying

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:

The council has invited tenders for the building contract.

specialized finance & economics mainly UK US usually bid a written offer to buy or sell shares in a company

put sth out to tender UK

If you put work out to tender, you ask people to make offers to do it:

Education departments in all the prisons are being put out to tender.

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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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Buying & selling - general words
Making appeals & requests
Giving, providing and supplying

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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Trucks, vans & caravans

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:

The SS Nomadic was a tender to the ill-fated liner, Titanic.

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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:

chicken tenders

tendernoun

uk/ˈtendər/us

[ C ] COMMERCE a written or formal offer to supply goods or do a job for an agreed price:

receive a tender Competitive tenders must be received by 1 p.m.
invite tenders (to do/for sth) Morocco is inviting tenders to build two wind farms.
submit a tender (to do/for sth) The company said it will submit tenders to develop three oil fields in the area.

[ C or U ] COMMERCE a method of choosing the best company to supply goods or do a job by asking several companies to make offers for the work:

win a tender (for/to do sth) The company won a tender to start an analogue cellular network.
put sth out to tender The drilling rights have been put out to tender.

[ C ] also tender offer FINANCE, STOCK MARKET an occasion when a company sells new shares to those who make offers for them above a particular lowest price. The company calculates the strike price (= final price to be paid) in relation to the total demand and the prices offered:

All tenders above the strike price will be accepted.
Shares in the insurance group will be sold through tenders.
They made a cash tender of $15.50 per share.
The share tender was over-subscribed.
If you buy shares in the retail tender offer, they will be free of transfer charges for up to 42 days after allocation.

See also

legal tender
sealed-bid tender
self-tender

tenderverb

uk/ˈtendər/us

[ I or T ] COMMERCE to make a formal offer to supply goods or do a job for an agreed price:

It will be better still if competitors in poor countries can tender successfully.
tender to do sth The company is tendering to clean the Millennium Dome.
tender for sth Next month companies will be invited to tender for a new international telecommunications system.

[ I or T ] FINANCE, STOCK MARKET to make a formal offer to buy or sell shares at a stated price:

Unit holders are under no obligation to tender their shares.
About 7 million of their shares had been tendered under the offer.
tender sth to sb/sth The company tendered its shares to BP for 500p cash.
tender into sth They gave security holders an additional opportunity to tender into the offer.

[ T ] formal to give or offer something:

You will have no option but to tender your resignation.
He tendered a delivery note for signature.
She tendered a plea of no contest.
tender sth as sth A check was tendered as payment.
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