Usually means: Sensitive to touch; easily bruised.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. tender: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tender, tender, tender: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tender, tender, tender: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tender: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tender: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tender, tender: Wordnik
  7. tender: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tender: Wiktionary
  9. tender: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tender: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tender: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tender: Dictionary.com
  13. tender (adj.), tender (n.), tender (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tender: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tender (Wishbone Ash album), Tender (band), Tender (rail), Tender (song), Tender, The Tender: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tender: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tender: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tender: Rhymezone
  19. tender: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tender: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tender: Free Dictionary
  22. tender: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tender: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. tender: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. tender: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. tender: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  8. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  9. TENDER: Accounting Glossary
  10. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  11. Tender: bizterms.net
  12. Tender: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  13. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  14. Tender: Harvey Financial
  15. Terms related to the Federal Reserve, banking and economics (No longer online)
  16. Tender: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  17. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  18. Tender: Investopedia
  19. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  20. tender: Legal dictionary
  21. tender: Financial dictionary
  22. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  23. Tender: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tender: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. tender: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tender: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tender, tender: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Tender: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tender: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Tender: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Sensitive or painful to the touch.
adjective:  Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
adjective:  Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
adjective:  (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
adjective:  Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
adjective:  Fond, loving, gentle, or sweet.
adjective:  Young and inexperienced.
adjective:  Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
adjective:  Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
adjective:  (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
adjective:  (obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
adjective:  (obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.
noun:  (obsolete) Care, kind concern, regard.
noun:  The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
adverb:  tenderly
verb:  (now rare) To make tender or delicate; to weaken.
verb:  (archaic) To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly or with consideration.
noun:  (obsolete) Someone who tends or waits on someone.
noun:  (rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
noun:  (nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
noun:  (nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
noun:  (diving) A member of a diving team who assists a diver during a dive but does not themselves go underwater.
verb:  To work on a tender.
noun:  Anything which is offered, proffered, put forth or bid with the expectation of a response, answer, or reply.
noun:  A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
noun:  (law) A formal offer to buy or sell something.
noun:  Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.
verb:  (formal) To offer, to give.
verb:  To offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.
noun:  Short for water tender (“firefighting apparatus”). [A specialized firefighting apparatus designed for transporting water from a water source, such as a lake or hydrant, to a fire scene.]

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