tender : Idioms & Phrases


Gate tender

  • one in charge of a gate, as at a railroad crossing.
Webster 1913

  • noun something that can be used as an official medium of payment
    tender; stamp.
WordNet
  • . (a) The act of tendering in the performance of a contract or satisfaction of a claim that which the law prescribes or permits, and at such time and place as the law prescribes or permits . (b) That currency, or money, which the law authorizes a debtor to tender and requires a creditor to receive. It differs in different countries.
Webster 1913

tender loving care

  • noun considerate and solicitous care
    TLC.
    • young children need lots of TLC
WordNet

Tender of issue

  • (Law), a form of words in a pleading, by which a party offers to refer the question raised upon it to the appropriate mode of decision. Burrill.
Webster 1913

tender offer

  • noun an offer to buy shares in a corporation (usually above the market price) for cash or securities or both
WordNet

tender-hearted

Ten"der-heart`ed adjective
Definitions
  1. Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ness, n.
    Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them. 2 Chron. xiii. 7.
    Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted. Eph. iv. 32.
Webster 1913

tender-hefted

Ten"der-heft`ed adjective
Definitions
  1. Having great tenderness; easily moved. Obs. Shak.
Webster 1913