tender
A2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Medicine adjective
Painful when touched or pressed.
The area over the wound was warm and tender.
Law noun
A formal, unconditional offer of performance or of money due under a contract.
The debtor's tender of the exact sum, though refused, stopped further interest from accruing.
Business verb
To formally invite or submit competitive bids for a contract.
The council tendered the waste contract and awarded it to the lowest compliant bid.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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