Tender
Tender may mean:
- one of several types of boat or ship, all sharing the general function of servicing another type of air or sea vessel:
- seaplane tender - supplies and services seaplanes
- submarine tender - resupplies submarines
- motor torpedo boat tender - resupplies motor torpedo boats
- ship's tender - used to transport people and supplies to and from a large ship
- dive tender - another name for Diving support vessel
- lighthouse tender - used to tend lighthouses and, later, buoys
- tenders, a type of railroad car hauled immediately after the locomotive proper that contains the fuel and water
- Legal tender, a term used of currency
- When a government, or sometimes a company, wants a particular project (such as a construction job) to be carried out by a contracting company, it often calls for tenders, or sealed offers naming a price to do the job. The competitors for the job must submit their tenders by a certain deadline, after which all are opened together, and typically the lowest tender wins the project.
- The Israeli name for a pickup truck
- A song and single, "Tender" by Blur.