Tender may refer to:
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Tender (surname)
Tender is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Manuela Tender (born 1971), Portuguese teacher, politician and former member of the Assembly of the Republic
* Ovidiu Tender (born 1956), Romanian businessman
* Priit Tender (born 197 ...
, surname
Entertainment
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''Tender'' (film), a 2020 short film by Felicia Pride
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''Tender'' (Wishbone Ash album), 2008
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Tender (Lady Maisery album)
''Tender'' is the fifth studio album by the English folk trio Lady Maisery, released 11 November 2022. It was their first studio album released in six years.
The album comprises original songs written by Lady Maisery, as well as interpretations ...
, 2022, or its title track
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"Tender" (song), by Blur
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Tender (band)
Tender (styled as TENDER) is a British electronic duo formed in London, England, in 2015. Having started from home and self releasing a couple of EPs, they signed to Partisan Records in 2016, and released their debut album, ''Modern Addiction'' ...
, a British music duo formed in 2015
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"Tender" (Feeder song), a 2005 song
* "Tender", a song by Monaco from their 1997 album ''
Music for Pleasure''
* "Tender", a song by Tesseract from their 2023 album ''
War of Being''
* "Tender", an
unreleased song by SZA
Transportation
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Tender (rail)
A tender is a special rail vehicle hauled by a steam locomotive containing its fuel (wood, coal, oil or torrefied biomass) and water. Steam locomotives consume large quantities of water compared to the quantity of fuel, so their tenders are ...
, a type of railroad car
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Ship's tender
A ship's tender, usually referred to as a tender, is a boat or ship used to service or support other boats or ships. This is generally done by transporting people or supplies to and from shore or another ship.
A second and distinctly different ...
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Cannery tender
A cannery tender was a type of commercial fishing vessel operated by salmon canneries in the early to mid- 20th century. Most commonly used in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, cannery tenders transported fish from cannery-owned fish traps to c ...
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Destroyer tender
A destroyer tender or destroyer depot ship is a type of depot ship: an auxiliary ship designed to provide maintenance support to a flotilla of destroyers or other small warships. The use of this class has faded from its peak in the first half of ...
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Submarine tender
A submarine tender, in British English a submarine depot ship, is a type of depot ship that supplies and supports submarines.
Development
Submarines are small compared to most oceangoing vessels, and generally cannot carry large amounts of foo ...
, a naval support vessel
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Lighthouse tender
A lighthouse tender is a ship specifically designed to maintain, support, or tend to lighthouses or lightvessels, providing supplies, fuel, mail, and transportation. The work is often carried out by ships which also act as buoy tenders.
In ...
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Mail tender
A mail tender is a small steamboat used to carry mail. As a tender it only carries mail for short distances between ship and shore, ferrying it to and from a large mail steamer.
The use of tenders for loading passengers and their luggage was wel ...
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Motor torpedo boat tender
Motor torpedo boat tender is a type of ship used by the U.S. Navy during World War II and Vietnam War. The motor torpedo boat tender's task was to act as a tender in remote areas for patrol boats ( PT-boats) and to provide the necessary fuel a ...
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Seaplane tender
A seaplane tender is a boat or ship that supports the operation of seaplanes. Some of these vessels, known as seaplane carriers, could not only carry seaplanes but also provided all the facilities needed for their operation; these ships are rega ...
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Water tender
A water tender, sometimes known as a water tanker, is a type of firefighting apparatus that specializes in the transport of water from a water source to a fire scene.[Yacht tender
A yacht tender is a vessel used for servicing and providing support and entertainment to a private or charter yacht. They include utilitarian craft, powered by oar or outboard motor, and high-speed luxury craft, supporting superyachts, powered by ...]
*A term for a
light truck
Light truck or light-duty truck is a US classification for vehicles with a gross vehicle weight up to and a payload capacity up to . Similar goods vehicle classes in the European Union, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are termed light ...
, e.g. the 1910s
Crossley tender
Crossley Motors was an English motor vehicle manufacturer based in Manchester, England. It produced approximately 19,000 cars from 1904 until 1938, 5,500 buses from 1926 until 1958, and 21,000 goods and military vehicles from 1914 to ...
Other uses
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Legal tender
Legal tender is a form of money that Standard of deferred payment, courts of law are required to recognize as satisfactory payment in court for any monetary debt. Each jurisdiction determines what is legal tender, but essentially it is anything ...
, a form of money with a specific legal status
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Invitation to tender
An invitation to tender (ITT, also known as a call for bids or a request for tenders) is a formal, structured procedure for generating competing offers from different potential suppliers or contractors looking to obtain an award of business activ ...
, a structured invitation to vendors for the supply of goods or services
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Procurement
Procurement is the process of locating and agreeing to terms and purchasing goods, services, or other works from an external source, often with the use of a tendering or competitive bidding process. The term may also refer to a contractual ...
, a process of finding and agreeing to terms, and acquiring goods, services, or works from an external source, often via a tendering or competitive bidding process
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Tender offer
In corporate finance, a tender offer is a type of public takeover bid. The tender offer is a public, open offer or invitation (usually announced in a newspaper advertisement) by a prospective acquirer to all stockholders of a publicly traded corp ...
, used to propose a buyout of a public company
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Tender (charity)
Tender (formerly Until the Violence Stops) is a London-based charitable organisation that works to prevent domestic violence. Founded in 2003, Tender delivers educational violence prevention programmes to secondary schools, Pupil Referral Units ...
, London-based charity that works to prevent domestic and sexual violence
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Chicken tenders
Chicken tenders (also known as chicken goujons, tendies, chicken strips, chicken fingers, or chicken fillets) are chicken meat prepared from the pectoralis minor muscles of the bird. These strips of white meat are located on either side of the ...
, a type of chicken dish
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Tender-mindedness, a personality trait related to agreeability
See also
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Tenderness (disambiguation)
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