vendor
UK/ˈvɛn.də//ˈvɛn.dɚ/
vendor noun: a person or a company that vends or sells.
Noun
vendor (plural vendors)
- 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.1847 March 30, Herman Melville, “Queen Pomaree”, in Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 309
- Travel is enlivened not only by the mixed company of French, Berbers, Arabs, and descendants of the Mediterranean-Corsairs who sit together indiscriminately, but also by itinerant vendors of macaroons, sweetmeats and the like, who, as long as they have a travel ticket, ply their wares unhindered by...1950 May, “A Tunisian Electric Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 335
- A vending machine.
- She left her duties guarding the cola vendor and brushed past Earl to the aisle with the creamed corn.2015, Jennifer Ott, Rays of Civilization, page 64
Verb
vendor (third-person singular simple present vendors, present participle vendoring, simple past and past participle vendored)
- 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.
vendor meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
vendor in Hindi
- विक्रेता, वेंडर
vendor in Tamil
- விற்பனையாளர், வியாபாரி, வணிகர்
vendor in Marathi
- विक्रेते
vendor in Urdu
- بیچنے والا, فروشندہ, پھیری والا, سودے والا
More languagesFewer languages
- vendor in Bengali
- বিক্রেতা
- vendor in Malayalam
- വിക്രേതാവ്, വെണ്ടർ, വിൽപ്പനക്കാരൻ, വിൽക്കുന്നവൻ
- vendor in Kannada
- ಮಾರಾಳಿ, ಹಾದಿಹರದ, ತಿರುಗುಹರದ, ಮಾರುವವನು
- vendor in Gujarati
- વિક્રેતા
- vendor in Odia
- ବିକ୍ରେତା
- vendor in Nepali
- विक्रेता, बिक्रेता
- vendor in Arabic
- بَائِع bāʔiʕ, بَيَّاع bayyāʕ
- vendor in Persian
- فروشنده forušande
- vendor in Thai
- ผู้ขาย pôo kăai
- vendor in Vietnamese
- ngưởi bán hàng rong
Examples of vendor in a sentence
- The square was filled with booths, with vendors offering their wares.
- In the idiom of the day, they were sutlers, although today they'd probably be called vendors.
- Vendors were selling sunglasses, bagged snacks, and sundry other items from handcarts in the square.
Synonyms of vendor
Forms of vendor
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | vendors |
| alternative form (dated) | vender |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | vendors |
| present participle | vendoring |
| past participle | vendored |
| past | vendored |
Origin of vendor
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”).
Words formed from vendor
Phrases with vendor
Words that rhyme with vendor
- render
- tender
- bender
- surrender
- transgender
- gender
- pretender
- defender
- descender
- engender
- ascender
- fender
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Questions about vendor
- What does vendor mean?
- Vendor means a person or a company that vends or sells.
- What is vendor in Hindi?
- Vendor in Hindi is विक्रेता, वेंडर. See Vendor meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is vendor?
- Vendor can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce vendor?
- Vendor is pronounced /ˈvɛn.də/ (UK).
- What is the plural of vendor?
- The plural of vendor is vendors.
Words near vendor in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: vendor (page history and authors); vendor (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vendor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vendor (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vendor (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vendor (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vendor (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); vendor (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vendor (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vendor (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vendor (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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