tender

To regard or treat with compassion, solicitude, fondness, or care; cherish; hence, to hold dear; value; esteem.

To make tender, in any sense.

To offer; make offer of; present for acceptance: as, to tender one a complimentary dinner; to tender one’s resignation.

To offer in payment or satisfaction of some demand or obligation: as, to tender the (exact) amount of rent due.

To show; present to view.

To make a tender or offer; especially, to offer to supply certain commodities for a certain period at rates and under conditions specified, or to execute certain work: as, to tender for the dredging of a harbor.

noun

An offer for acceptance.

noun

Specifically In law, an offer of money or any other thing in satisfaction of a debt or liability; especially, the production and offer to pay or deliver the very thing requirable by a contract.

noun

An offer in writing made by one party to another to execute some specified work or to supply certain specified articles at a certain sum or rate, or to purchase something at a specified price.

noun

Something tendered or offered.