Tender

Tender may refer to:

Transportation

• Tender (rail), a type of railroad car hauled immediately after the locomotive and used to carry fuel and water
• Water tender, fire truck tanker

Boats/ships

• Ship's tender, used to support the operations of other vessels
  • Buoy tender, used to maintain Aids to Navigation (Aton) including buoys
  • Destroyer tender
  • Dive tender, another name for a diving support vessel
  • Lighthouse tender, used to tend lighthouses and, later, buoys
  • Luxury yacht tender
  • Mail tender, a small tender used to speed the delivery of mails from large liners
  • Motor torpedo boat tender, used to service motor torpedo boats
  • Seaplane tender
  • Submarine tender
  • Cannery Tender

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Tender (film), a 2012 film starring Mark Conaghan
• Tender (album), a 2008 album by Wishbone Ash
• "Tender" (song), by Blur
• "Tender", a song by the band Feeder

Business and finance

• Legal tender, a form of money with a specific legal status
• Request for tender, a structured invitation to vendors for the supply of goods or services
  • Tendering, or public procurement, a way in which bodies governed by public law buy what they need for their activities
• Tender offer, used to propose a buyout of a public company

Other uses

• Tender (Until the Violence Stops), London-based charity that works to prevent domestic and sexual violence
• Chicken tender
• Plants which cannot withstand freezing temperatures, see Hardiness (plants)

See also

• All pages beginning with "Tender"
• All pages with titles containing Tender
• "Tenderly", song
• Tenderly (film), a 1968 film starring George Segal
• Tenderfoot (disambiguation)
• Tenderloin (disambiguation)
• Tenderness (disambiguation)
• Tendernob, area in San Francisco, California, US
• Tenderpreneur
• Tendre (disambiguation)
• Tendrement, 2002 French pop music album by Lorie
• Tend (disambiguation)
• TenDRA, C/C++ compiler for POSIX-compatible operating systems