tender
noun/ˈtendə(r)/
/ˈtendər/
- a formal offer to supply goods or do work at a stated price synonym bid1
- Cleaning services have been put out to tender (= companies have been asked to make offers to supply these services).
- a competitive tender
- A local firm submitted the lowest tender.
- The bus company is inviting tenders for a number of new buses.
Extra Examples- The building of the new school will go out to tender.
- The property is to be sold by tender.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- highest
- lowest
- successful
- …
- make
- put in
- submit
- …
- offer
- document
- price
- …
- by tender
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- a truck attached to a steam engine, carrying fuel and water
- a small boat, used for carrying people or goods between a larger boat and landTopics Transport by waterc2 see also legal tender
Word Originnoun sense 1 mid 16th cent. (as a legal term meaning ‘formally offer a plea or evidence, or money to discharge a debt’, also as a noun denoting such an offer): from Old French tendre, from Latin tendere ‘to stretch, hold forth’. noun senses 2 to 3 late Middle English (in the sense ‘attendant, nurse’): from tend (senses 3 and 4) or shortening of attender (see attend).
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