Tender vs. Contract

Tenderadjective

Sensitive or painful to the touch.

Tenderadjective

Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.

Tenderadjective

Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.

Tenderadjective

(of food) Soft and easily chewed.

Tenderadjective

Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

Tenderadjective

Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.

Tenderadjective

Young and inexperienced.

Tenderadjective

Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.

Tenderadjective

Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.

Tenderadjective

(nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.

Tenderadjective

(obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.

Tenderadjective

(obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.

Tendernoun

(obsolete) Care, kind concern, regard.

Tendernoun

The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.

Tendernoun

(obsolete) Someone who tends or waits on someone.

Tendernoun

(rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.

Tendernoun

(nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.

Tendernoun

(nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.

Tendernoun

A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.

Tendernoun

(legal) A formal offer to buy or sell something.

Tendernoun

Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.

Tenderverb

To make tender or delicate; to weaken.

Tenderverb

(archaic) To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly or with consideration.

Tenderverb

To work on a tender.

Tenderverb

(formal) To offer, to give.

Tenderverb

to offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.

Tendernoun

One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.

Tendernoun

A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.

Tendernoun

A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.

Tendernoun

An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest.

Tendernoun

Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract.

Tendernoun

The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation.

Tendernoun

Regard; care; kind concern.

Tenderverb

To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt.

Tenderverb

To offer in words; to present for acceptance.

Tenderverb

To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.

Tenderadjective

Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.

Tenderadjective

Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

Tenderadjective

Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.

Tenderadjective

Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.

Tenderadjective

Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.

Tenderadjective

Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; - with of.

Tenderadjective

Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.

Tenderadjective

Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain.

Tenderadjective

Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject.

Tenderadjective

Heeling over too easily when under sail; - said of a vessel.

Tendernoun

something used as an official medium of payment

Tendernoun

someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

Tendernoun

a formal proposal to buy at a specified price

Tendernoun

car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water

Tendernoun

a boat for communication between ship and shore

Tendernoun

ship that usually provides supplies to other ships

Tenderverb

offer or present for acceptance

Tenderverb

propose a payment;

Tenderverb

make a tender of; in legal settlements

Tenderverb

make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer;

Tenderadjective

given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality;

Tenderadjective

hurting;

Tenderadjective

susceptible to physical or emotional injury;

Tenderadjective

having or displaying warmth or affection;

Tenderadjective

easy to cut or chew;

Tenderadjective

physically untoughened;

Tenderadjective

(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

Tenderadjective

(of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition;

Tenderadjective

showing gentleness, kindness, and affection

Tenderadjective

solicitous of

Tenderadjective

(of food) easy to cut or chew; not tough

Tenderadjective

(of a part of the body) sensitive to pain

Tenderadjective

(of a plant) easily injured by severe weather and therefore needing protection

Tenderadjective

requiring tact or careful handling

Tenderadjective

young, inexperienced, or vulnerable

Tenderadjective

(of a ship) leaning or readily inclined to roll in response to the wind.

Tenderverb

offer or present (something) formally

Tenderverb

offer (money) as payment

Tenderverb

make a formal written offer to carry out work, supply goods, or buy land, shares, or another asset for a stated fixed price

Tenderverb

formally offer (a stated fixed price) for carrying out work, supplying goods, etc.

Tenderverb

seek offers to carry out work at a stated fixed price

Tendernoun

an offer to carry out work, supply goods, or buy land, shares, or another asset at a stated fixed price

Tendernoun

a vehicle used by a fire service for carrying specified supplies or equipment or fulfilling a specified role

Tendernoun

a vehicle used in mobile operations by a public service or the armed forces

Tendernoun

a dinghy or other boat used to ferry people and supplies to and from a ship.

Tendernoun

a trailing vehicle closely coupled to a steam locomotive to carry fuel and water.

Tendernoun

a person who looks after someone else or a machine or place

Contractnoun

An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.

Contractnoun

(legal) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.

Contractnoun

(legal) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.

Contractnoun

(informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.

Contractnoun

(bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.

Contractadjective

(obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

Contractadjective

(obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.

Contractverb

(ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.

Contractverb

(grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

Contractverb

(transitive) To enter into a contract with. en

Contractverb

(transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.

Contractverb

(intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.

Contractverb

(transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.

Contractverb

(transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).

Contractverb

To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.

Contractverb

To betroth; to affiance.

Contractverb

To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

Contractverb

To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.

Contractverb

To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.

Contractverb

To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.

Contractverb

To betroth; to affiance.

Contractverb

To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

Contractverb

To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet.

Contractverb

To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.

Contractadjective

Contracted; as, a contract verb.

Contractadjective

Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

Contractnoun

The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights.

Contractnoun

A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.

Contractnoun

The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.

Contractnoun

a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law

Contractnoun

(contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make

Contractnoun

a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid

Contractverb

enter into a contractual arrangement

Contractverb

engage by written agreement;

Contractverb

squeeze or press together;

Contractverb

become smaller or draw together;

Contractverb

be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness;

Contractverb

make smaller;

Contractverb

compress or concentrate;

Contractverb

make or become more narrow or restricted;

Contractverb

reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;

Contract

A contract is a legally binding document between at least two parties that defines and governs the rights and duties of the parties to an agreement. A contract is legally enforceable because it meets the requirements and approval of the law.