vendor
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vendor
- /ˈvɛn.də/ UK
- /ˈvɛn.dɚ/ US
Sounds like Venda (non-rhotic) · Rhymes with -ɛndə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman vendor (Old French vendeor), from Latin venditor (“seller”), from vendere (“to sell, cry up for sale, praise”), contraction of venundare, venumdare, also, as originally, two words venum dare (“to sell”), from venum (“sale, price”) + dare (“to give”).
noun vendors · vender
- A person or a company that vends or sells. […] Tanee was accosted by certain good fellows, friends and boon companions, who condoled with him on his misfortunes—railed against the queen, and finally dragged him away to an illicit vender of spirits, in whose house the party got gloriously mellow.
- A vending machine. She left her duties guarding the cola vendor and brushed past Earl to the aisle with the creamed corn.
verb vendors · vendoring · vendored · vender
- To bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one's own program. I distributed my application with a vendored copy of Perl so that it wouldn't use the system copies of Perl where it is installed.
- As the software vendor, to bundle one's own, possibly modified version of dependencies with a standard program. Strawberry Perl contains vendored copies of some CPAN modules, designed to allow them to run on Windows.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: seller, vender, trafficker, merchant, retailer, trader, dealer, salesman, reseller, salesperson, selling, provider, shopkeeper, clerk, source, buyer
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noun a person or a company that vends or sells
| Español | vendedor, vendedora |
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| 한국어 | 판매인 panmaein, 판매자 panmaeja |
| 日本語 | 売り手 urite, 販売者 hanbaisha |
| 中文 | 賣主 /卖主 màizhǔ, 賣家 /卖家 màijiā, 賣方 /卖方 màifāng |
| Português | vendedor, vendedora, fornecedor, fornecedora |
| Français | vendeur, vendeuse, marchand, marchande, commerçant, commerçante |
| Deutsch | Anbieter, Vertreiber, Lieferant, Lieferantin, Lieferer, Lieferin |
| Italiano | venditore, venditrice |
| Ελληνικά | πωλητής politís, πωλήτρια polítria |
| Română | vânzător, vânzătoare |
| Русский | продаве́ц prodavéc, продавщи́ца prodavščíca, ве́ндор véndor, ве́ндор vɛ́ndor |
| Tiếng Việt | ngưởi bán hàng rong |
| العربية | بَائِع bāʔiʕ, بَيَّاع bayyāʕ |
noun vending machine
| Deutsch | Verkaufsautomat, Warenautomat, Automat, -automat, Fahrscheinautomat |
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