nontender

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

non- +‎ tender

Verb[edit]

nontender (third-person singular simple present nontenders, present participle nontendering, simple past and past participle nontendered)

  1. (transitive, baseball) To fail to tender a contract to (a player).
    • 2015 October 13, Seth Berkman, “Former Met Justin Turner Provides Offensive Lift for Dodgers”, in New York Times[1]:
      In Los Angeles, where Turner signed after being nontendered by the Mets in December 2013, he has evolved past a cliché.

Adjective[edit]

nontender (not comparable)

  1. (medicine) Not tender; said of body parts or lesions that do not trigger discomfort upon palpation