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vend

/vɛnd/

vend verb: synonym of sell, (now especially) to sell through a vending machine.

Verb

vend (third-person singular simple present vends, present participle vending, simple past and past participle vended)

  1. Synonym of sell, (now especially) to sell through a vending machine.
    • As there was a small establishment that vended tea and toast just across the road, it was reasonable that Partridge should officiate therein as Limpet's host, and so easily adjusted to necessity are the economics of a simple life, that two pots of tea, two plates of toast, tobacco, and one subject...1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 151
    • Vending has been slow to change partly because the business for years could depend on what it called the four C's: cold drinks, candy, confections and cigarettes.1992 September 9, Trish Hall, “Vending Machines, the Next Generation in Dining”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    sell
  2. (transitive, uncommon) To provide or export functionality, especially from an API.
    • As you've seen, vending FO documents is pretty straightforward from WebObjects. It is just like vending HTML, XHTML, or SVG.2002, Ravi Mendis, WebObjects Developer's Guide, Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 289

Noun (1)

vend (plural vends)

  1. The act of vending or selling; a sale.
  2. (Australia, UK, dated) The total sales of coal from a colliery.

Noun (2)

vend (plural vends)

  1. The letter Ꝩ/ꝩ, used in Old Norse, related to the rune wynn (ᚹ, whence also Latin-script Ƿ/ƿ) but with the bowl open at the top, like a y.
    • [...] a gramm. term, implying the use of the old letter 'vend' in spelling v-rungu, v-rangr, v-reiðr, see introduction to letter R; ...1874, Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson, An Icelandic-English Dictionary, page 707
    • In Old English, the meaning of wynn is the same. In Old Norse, the etymological equivalents of words beginning with w are spelled with a v, the letter named “vend” in the Icelandic alphabet.2005, Diana L. Paxson, Taking Up The Runes: A Complete Guide To Using Runes In Spells, Rituals, Divination, And Magic, Weiser Books, →ISBN, page 88

Noun (3) capitalized: Vend

Vend (plural Vends)

  1. (historical) A member of a Balto-Finnic people who lived between the 12th to 16th centuries in the area around the town of Wenden (now Cēsis) in present-day north-central Latvia.

vend meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

vend in Tamil

விற்பனை செய், விற்பனை, விற்றுவிடு

vend in Urdu

بیچنا, کھلم کھلا بیان کرنا, شائع کرنا

vend in Kannada

ಮಾರು, ವಿಕ್ರಯಿಸು, ಕ್ರಯಕ್ಕೆ ಕೊಡು
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Sindhi
وڪڻڻ vikananu, وڪرو vikro

Examples of vend in a sentence

  • We will carry out a restock of the vending machine every Friday.
  • The vending machine went wrong and dispensed five cans of drink at once.
  • The vending machine only takes bills, it doesn't take coins.

All 18 example sentences with vend

Synonyms of vend

Forms of vend

Verb
third-person singular presentvends
present participlevending
past participlevended
pastvended
Noun
pluralvends
pluralVends

Past tense of vend: vended

Origin of vend

17th century, likely a backformation from earlier vendible, vendee, vendor inspired by the underlying French vendre, from Old French vendre, from Latin vendere, from vēnum dāre (“to give (something for) sale”).

Borrowed from Old Norse vend. Compare wynn.

Words formed from vend

Words that rhyme with vend

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Questions about vend

What does vend mean?
Vend means synonym of sell, (now especially) to sell through a vending machine.
What is vend in Tamil?
Vend in Tamil is விற்பனை செய், விற்பனை, விற்றுவிடு. See Vend meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is vend?
Vend can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce vend?
Vend is pronounced /vɛnd/.
What is the past tense of vend?
The past tense of vend is vended.

Words near vend in the dictionary

  1. venceremin
  2. venceremins
  3. Vencill
  4. Vencills
  5. vencuronium
  6. vend
  7. Venda
  8. vendable
  9. vendables
  10. vendace
  11. vendaces

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vend (page history and authors); Vend (page history and authors); Vend (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vend (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vend (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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