to tender
verb

- to give or offer something

- If you tender for a job, you make a formal offer to do it for a stated price

- If you tender for shares, you make a formal offer to buy them for a stated price

The Cambridge Dictionary

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WORD ORIGIN

"to offer formally," 1540s, from French tendre "to offer, hold forth" (11th century), from Latin tendere "to stretch, extend".

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OTHER TENDERS

- tender-minded = zartfühlend

- tender loving care = liebevolle Zuwendung/Fürsorge, zärtliche Pflege

- at the tender mercy of ... = von der zarten Gnade eines ...

- a tender young age = im zarten Kindesalter

- legal tender = gesetzliches Zahlungsmittel

- fork-tender = Gabeltender

- tender = Tender (ein Beiboot für den Transport von Personen und Vorräten zu und von einem Schiff)

- tender = Tender (ein eng, an eine Dampflokomotive gekoppeltes Nachlauffahrzeug, zum Transport von Treibstoff und Wasser)

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SYNONYMS

bid, file, furnish, lodge, nominate, offer, offer-for-sale, pitch, present, proffer, propose, put forth (forward, in, on the table, out, up), render, serve, set before, submit, table, TENDER, tout

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SMUGGLE OWAD into an English conversation, say something like:

“The effort of TENDERING a proposal is not worth making if the supplier has already been decided behind-the-scenes!”

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