tender
/ˈtɛn.dɚ/ noun C2- Anything which is offered, proffered, put forth or bid with the expectation of a response, answer, or reply.
- A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card. · Your credit card has been declined so you need to provide some other tender such as cash.· legal tender
- A formal offer to buy or sell something. · We will submit our tender to you within the week.
- Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.
Plural tenders
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And then Joe, with the air of a Monte Cristo, drew forth a ten, a five, a two and a one—all legal tender notes—and laid them beside Delia’s earnings.
Marilla felt a qualm of conscience at the thought of handing Anne over to her tender mercies.
Darcy without being grieved to the soul by a thousand tender recollections.
The possibility of his having really endured such unkindness was enough to interest all her tender feelings; and nothing therefore remained to be done but to think well of them both, to defend the conduct of each, and throw into the account of accident or mistake whatever could not be otherwise explained.
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