vendor

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English

Alternative forms

• vender

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛn.də/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛn.dɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
• Homophone: Venda (in non-rhotic accents)

Noun

vendor (plural vendors)

1. A person or a company that vends or sells.
2. A vending machine.

Synonyms

• merchant
• seller

Derived terms

Related terms

• vend
• vending machine
• vendue

Translations

Further reading

• vendor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

vendor (third-person singular simple present vendors, present participle vendoring, simple past and past participle vendored)

1. (transitive, software engineering) 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.

2. (transitive, software engineering) 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.

Anagrams

• Verdon, droven

Albanian

Etymology

From vendos (“to decide, to place”) +‎ -or (“forming adjectives”).

Adjective

vendor (feminine vendore)

1. local

Derived terms

• vendore

Latin

Verb

vēndor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of vēndō