vendor

English

Alternative forms

• vender

Etymology

Borrowed from 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

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• Rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)

Noun

vendor (plural vendors)

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

Synonyms

• merchant
• seller

Related terms

• vend
• vending machine
• vendor bid

Translations

A person or a company that vends or sells

• Albanian: shitës (sq), tregtar (sq)
• Arabic: بَائِع‎‎ m (bāʾiʿ)
• Bashkir: һатыусы (hatïwsï)
• Catalan: venedor (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 賣主 (zh), 卖主 (zh) (màizhǔ), 賣家 (zh), 卖家 (zh) (màijiā), 賣方 (zh), 卖方 (zh) (màifāng)

• Czech: prodejce m
• Danish: sælger (da), leverandør
• Dutch: leverancier (nl) m, f
• Finnish: myyjä (fi), kauppias (fi), toimittaja (fi)
• French: vendeur (fr), vendeuse (fr) f, marchand (fr) m, commerçant (fr) m
• Friulian: venditôr m
• Georgian: გამყიდველი (gamq̇idveli), მოვაჭრე (movač̣re), ვენდორი (vendori) (slang)
• German: Lieferant (de) m, Verkäufer (de) m, Verkäuferin (de) f
• Hungarian: eladó (hu), elárusító (hu), kereskedő (hu)
• Ido: vendisto (io)

• Italian: venditore (it) m
• Japanese: 売り手 (うりて, urite), 販売者 (はんばいしゃ, hanbaisha)
• Khmer: អ្នកលក់ (neak lʊək), ឈ្មួញ (km) (cmuəɲ)
• Persian: فروشنده‎‎ (fa) (forušande)
• Portuguese: vendedor (pt), fornecedor (pt)
• Romanian: vânzător (ro), vânzătoare (ro) f
• Russian: продаве́ц (ru) m (prodavéc), продавщи́ца (ru) f (prodavščíca), ве́ндор (ru) m (véndor), ве́ндор (ru) m (vɛ́ndor) (neologism)
• Slovene: prodajalec m, prodajalka f
• Southern Altai: садучы (sadučï)
• Spanish: vendedor (es)
• Swedish: säljare (sv), återförsäljare (sv)
• Thai: ผู้ขาย (pôo kăai)
• Turkish: satıcı (tr)
• Vietnamese: ngưởi bán hàng rong
• Yiddish: פֿאַרקויפֿער‎‎ m (farkoyfer) (person), פֿאַרקויפֿערין‎‎ f (farkoyferin) (person)

Verb

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

1. (software development) 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. (software development) 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

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Latin

Verb

vēndor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of vēndō