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Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈvɛn.də/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈvɛn.dɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
- Homophone: Venda (in non-rhotic accents)
Noun[edit]
vendor (plural vendors)
- A person or a company that vends or sells.
- 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, “Queen Pomaree”, in Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], OCLC 364546898, page 309:
- […] 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.
- 2015, Jennifer Ott, Rays of Civilization (page 64)
- 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)
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Translations[edit]
a person or a company that vends or sells
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vending machine
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Verb[edit]
vendor (third-person singular simple present vendors, present participle vendoring, simple past and past participle vendored)
- (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.
- (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.
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Albanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From vendos (“to decide, to place”) + -or (“forming adjectives”).
Adjective[edit]
vendor m (feminine vendore)
Derived terms[edit]
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
vēndor
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