What's the difference between payment and tender?

Payment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation.
  • (n.) That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward; recompense; requital; return.
  • (n.) Punishment; chastisement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
  • (2) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
  • (3) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
  • (4) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.
  • (5) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
  • (6) But the company's problems appear to be multiplying, with rumours that suppliers are demanding earlier payment than before, putting pressure on HTC's cash position.
  • (7) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
  • (8) Initial analysis suggests that about one-fifth of gross costs would be directly returned to the public purse via income tax and national insurance payments.
  • (9) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
  • (10) Pensioners, like those in receipt of long-term social welfare payments or those who can prove they cannot provide their heating needs during winter, are entitled to a means-tested weekly winter fuel allowance of €20 (£ 14.54) per household.
  • (11) Most (86 percent) had educational debt (mean = $20,500), and more than half of those with debt were making loan payments.
  • (12) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.
  • (13) Tomorrow the courts are expected to sign off a $97.5m payment by the company to its shareholders, after investors took a class action lawsuit against the company.
  • (14) The payments were for services ranging from "project management" to "HR consultancy", according to the academy chain's company accounts.
  • (15) The four most common types of insurance that protect your income are income protection insurance, critical illness cover, life insurance, and payment protection insurance.
  • (16) In a 2011 interview with the Financial Times he said: “JPMorgan doesn’t have a chance in hell of not coming up with a big settlement.” He claimed: “There were people at the bank who knew what was going on.” The payment brings the total of fines imposed on JP Morgan to nearly $20bn in the past year.
  • (17) Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox , Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.” It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
  • (18) The payments are now more likely to made in shares issued monthly.
  • (19) Applications from Serbia, which account for 10% of the total, stem mostly from the dissolution of former Yugoslavia: payment of army reservists, access to savings in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, pensions in Kosovo.
  • (20) Without action today, the winter fuel payment would have decreased in value this coming winter.

Tender


Definition:

  • (n.) One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
  • (n.) A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.
  • (n.) A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.
  • (v. t.) To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt.
  • (v. t.) To offer in words; to present for acceptance.
  • (n.) An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest.
  • (n.) Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract.
  • (n.) The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation.
  • (superl.) Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.
  • (superl.) Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
  • (superl.) Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.
  • (superl.) Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.
  • (superl.) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
  • (superl.) Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of.
  • (superl.) Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.
  • (superl.) Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain.
  • (superl.) Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject.
  • (superl.) Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel.
  • (n.) Regard; care; kind concern.
  • (v. t.) To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gross deformity, point tenderness and decrease in supination and pronation movements of the forearm were the best predictors of bony injury.
  • (2) The degree of discomfort was slightly greater in women who complained of breast tenderness within three days prior to the mammogram but was not strongly related to age, menstrual status, or week of the menstrual cycle.
  • (3) Xu, the ABP chairman, disputed any claims of impropriety, and said his company went through a “robust and thorough” tender process.
  • (4) These data suggest that d 7 MFI could be used as a single predictor of d 14 longissimus muscle tenderness; however, CDP inhibitor d 1 activity (a biological event) also may be useful in predicting tenderness.
  • (5) Eight of 47 LSNs overlying the posterior superior iliac spines (PSIS) were tender.
  • (6) If LTP is to be effective, thorough coagulation with tender blanching effects is mandatory.
  • (7) The remaining patients had vague pains, tender abdomen, constitutional symptoms or a mass in the abdomen.
  • (8) Seventy-nine percent of all subjects were skin-test positive to inhalant allergens, but positive skin tests alone did not correlate with the number of tender points or criteria for fibromyalgia.
  • (9) Permanent relief of tenderness in the needled structure was obtained for 92 structures; relief for several months in 58; for several weeks in 63; and for several days in 32 out of 288 pain sites followed up.
  • (10) Three infants presented with acute scrotal swelling, erythema, and a tender irreducible firm mass within the scrotum.
  • (11) Before and one, two, three, and seven days after the experiment, the following measures were made: (1) superficial masseter and anterior temporalis muscle tenderness (pain threshold), (2) jaw movement (opening and lateral excursion), and (3) current pain level for the right and left sides of the jaw.
  • (12) Increasing slaughter weight from 60 to 90% was associated with an increase in panel tenderness scores for loin steaks.
  • (13) Pericranial muscle tenderness and elevated EMG activity may index different aspects of abnormal muscle function.
  • (14) The results showed significant relief of spontaneous pain, significant reduction in tenderness on pressure and in swelling on days 2, 4 and 6 of the trial, and a significant reduction in functional impairment on days 4 and 6, in the patients who had received the 3% benzydamine cream.
  • (15) They showed symmetric weakness and tenderness of the proximal muscles, peripheral hypoesthesia and hypo even areflexia.
  • (16) Lamb leg and rib roasts were more tender when cooked from the thawed state.
  • (17) In the sensitized state, nociceptors can be activated by low-intensity stimulation; this is probably one of the mechanisms producing deep tenderness.
  • (18) The abdomen was tender with guarding and a palpable globular mass in the same region.
  • (19) A 25-year-old man on hemodialysis developed arthritis of 2 right metacarpophalangeal joints and a 65-year-old man on chronic ambulatory peritoneal dialysis suffered from pain and tenderness in the left buttock.
  • (20) Among 23 patients with daily headache a correlation was found between headache intensity and Total Tenderness Score.