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Plural of tender

regular plural

The plural of tender is tenders.

Forms of tender

Singulartender /ˈtɛn.dəː/
Pluraltenders
Countablecountable and uncountable

Tenders in a sentence

  • The company has sold ore in private tenders to a small group of international and Chinese traders.2025 November 20, Alfred Cang, Katharine Gemmell, “China’s Giant Iron Ore Trader Widens Ban to Second BHP Ore”, in Bloomberg Markets. From the entry bhp
  • Many of them now have the semi-elliptical, frame-less tenders taken from scrapped Kriegsloks of Type "52".1960 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 553. From the entry semi-elliptical
  • Using electricity as motive power for railroads will do away with fuel trains, tenders, coal handling, water, and all that.1922, Victor Appleton, chapter 7, in Tom Swift And His Electric Locomotive. From the entry do away with
  • The drops worked by chaldron wagons being taken up the incline, and their loads dropped down chutes into tenders of steam locomotives waiting below.2025 February 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railway heritage saved in 2024”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 54. From the entry chaldron
  • The best sellers, day to day, month to month, no matter the season, were apricot chicken tenders, sesame noodles, and pasta nests.2005, Rachael Ray, 365: No Repeats : a Year of Deliciously Different Dinners, page 241. From the entry -licious

Meaning of tender

  1. adjective Sensitive or painful to the touch.
  2. adjective Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
  3. adjective Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.

Full definition of tender

Questions about the plural of tender

What is the plural of tender?
The plural of tender is tenders.
Is tender countable?
Tender is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tender (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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