tender

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  1. adjective Easily crushed or bruised; fragile: a tender petal.
  2. adjective Easily chewed or cut: tender beef.
  3. adjective Young and vulnerable: of tender age.
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  • He said he simply does not like the procedure in which the tender was announced, the content of the contract, and how the money will be used, either. —  Slovak Spectator
  • Calling your retrofitted little runabout a tender is apparently all the rage these days. —  Autoblog
  • Transport and Communications Minister Yosyp Vinskyi was quoted as saying that the details of the tender will be announced next week, and predicted that Ukrtelecom would fetch at least UAH25 billion (USD3. 2 billion). —  TeleGeography CommsUpdate
  • Among those interested in the tender are the consortium formed by Spanish company Acciona and Peruvian construction company Graña y Montero, and the consortium led by Metro de Madrid which also includes Spanish companies OHL, Cobra and Abengo-Telvent. —  Business News Americas - Top Stories
  • "The main criterion for evaluating the tender will be the best possible price," Madunická told The Slovak Spectator. —  Slovak Spectator
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  1. Middle English, from Old French tendre, from Latin tener; see ten- in Indo-European roots.
  2. From French tendre, to offer, from Old French, from Latin tendere, to hold forth, extend; see ten- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English tender, tendre, from Old French (and F.) tendre = Provencal tenre, tendre = Spanish tierno = Portuguese tenro = Italian tenero, from Latin tener, soft, delicate, tender, of tender age, young; akin to tenuis, thin, fine: see thin.
  2. Middle English tendren; from tender, a.
  3. from French tendre = Provencal tendre = Spanish Portuguese tender = Italian tendere, stretch, display, also tender, offer, from Latin tendere, stretch, extend: see tend. Tender, like render, surrender, retains, exceptionally, the termination of the F. infinitive; tend is the same word without this termination.
  4. from tender, v.
  5. from tend + -er; partly by apheresis from attender.
 

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