Synonyms for tender

noun

• someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
• something that can be used as an official medium of payment
• a boat for communication between ship and shore
• a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
• ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
• car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water

adjective

• physically untoughened
• hurting
• having or displaying warmth or affection
• (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
• easy to cut or chew
• given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality
• (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition
• young and immature

verb

• propose a payment
• make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer
• make a tender of; in legal settlements
• offer or present for acceptance