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noun
- a country that levies low taxes on foreign businesses
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noun
- A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
- Your credit card has been declined. You need to provide some other such as cash.
- A formal offer of payment.
- We will submit our to you within the week.
- A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel.
- (nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
- submarine tender
- destroyer tender
- (nautical) A boat used for transportation between a ship and shore.
verb
- (formal) To offer, to give.
- 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
- : I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
- To offer a payment, as at sales or auctions
adjective (tenderer, tenderest)
- Sensitive or pain, painful to be touched.
- Be careful, that area is . - Mike Meyers as the voice of the title character in the movie Shrek.
- Of food, soft and easily chewed.
- The matrix is telling my brain this steak is , succulent and juicy. - Joey Pantolino in the movie ''The Matrix'.'
- Fond, loving, gentle, sweet
- Suzanne was such a and sweet woman to her children.
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noun
- a finger-operated lever used to fire a gun
- a similar device used to activate any mechanism
- an event that initiates others, or incites a response
- a pulse in an electronic circuit that initiates some component
- (computing) an SQL procedure that may be initiated when a record is inserted, updated or deleted; typically used to maintain referential integrity
(wikipedia, Database trigger)
verb
- (transitive) to fire a weapon
- (transitive) to initiate something
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