Tenders
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Definitions
4 meaningsA formal offer or bid, especially for a contract.
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Formal offers or bids
The city received several tenders for the new public park.
💡 Simply: Imagine you're a company offering to build a bridge for the city. Your 'tender' is your formal offer with a price and a plan.
👶 For kids: When grown-ups want someone to do a job, they might ask for 'tenders' to see who will do it and how much it will cost.
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The construction company submitted a detailed tender.
Reviewing the tenders took several weeks.
How It's Used
"The company is reviewing the tenders for the new construction project."
"The government issued a tender for a new highway project."
Something offered as payment; legal currency.
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Legal currency
The shop accepts cash as legal tender.
💡 Simply: When you go to buy a toy, the cash or the card you use to pay with is called the 'tender'. It's the way you offer to pay.
👶 For kids: Money that people use to buy things!
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Credit cards are increasingly used as tender.
The government declared the new banknotes as legal tender.
How It's Used
"The bank accepted various currencies as legal tender."
To offer or submit formally, often in writing.
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To offer formally
He tendered his resignation to the board.
💡 Simply: Imagine you're handing in your homework to the teacher. You're 'tendering' it, officially offering it for grading.
👶 For kids: To give something to someone, like your homework or a note to your friend!
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The company tendered a bid for the project.
The lawyer tendered new evidence during the trial.
How It's Used
"The company tendered their resignation."
"The defense attorney tendered evidence to the court."
A person or thing that cares for or attends to something, particularly in a ship, or on a train, or other transportation. Usually someone or something that provides service or helps
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Someone or something that provides care, attention, or service
The ship used tenders to transport passengers to shore.
💡 Simply: Imagine someone providing water and fuel for a train. They are acting as the 'tender.'
👶 For kids: Someone or something that provides care, like someone who helps.
More Examples
The old steam engine required a constant supply of coal from its tender.
The hospital used tenders to offer a good patient experience
How It's Used
"The ship's tenders were small boats used to ferry passengers."
"Steam locomotives were fueled by coal and carried water in separate tenders"
Synonyms
Bid
Estimate
Offer
Proposal
Quotation
Cash
Currency
Money
Payment
Extend
Present
Submit
Attendant
Helper
Provider
Supplier
From Middle English tendren, from Old French tendre ('to offer, extend'). Related to 'attend' and 'extend'.
Historically, the word 'tender' also referred to someone who looks after or cares for something.
Memory tip
Think of 'bidding tenders' – businesses offering to do work.