vendor

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/

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• Rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
• Homophone: Venda (in non-rhotic accents)

Noun

vendor (plural vendors)

1. 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.

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
• vendue

Translations

a person or a company that vends or sells

• Albanian: shitës (sq), tregtar (sq)
• Arabic: بَائِع‎ m (bāʾiʿ), بَيَّاع‎ (bayyāʿ)
• Bashkir: һатыусы (hatïwsï)
• Belarusian: прадаве́ц m (pradavjéc), прадаўшчы́ца f (pradaŭščýca)
• Bikol Central: paratinda
• Bulgarian: продава́ч m (prodaváč), продава́чка f (prodaváčka)
• Catalan: venedor (ca) m, venedora (ca) f
• Chechen: йохкархо (joχkarχo)
• 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) c, sælgerinde c (female), sælgekone c (female), sælgerske c (female), leverandør c
• Dutch: leverancier (nl) m or f
• Finnish: myyjä (fi), kauppias (fi), toimittaja (fi)
• French: vendeur (fr), vendeuse (fr) f, marchand (fr) m, marchande (fr) f, commerçant (fr) m, commerçante (fr) f
• Friulian: venditôr m
• Georgian: გამყიდველი (gamq̇idveli), მოვაჭრე (movač̣re), ვენდორი (vendori) (slang)
• German: Anbieter (de) m, Vertreiber m, Lieferant (de) m, Lieferantin (de) f, Lieferer m, Lieferin f, Verkäufer (de) m, Verkäuferin (de) f
• Greek: πωλητής (el) m (politís), πωλήτρια (el) f (polítria)

  Ancient: πωλητής m (pōlētḗs), πωλήτρια f (pōlḗtria), (suffix) -πώλης m (-pṓlēs)

• Hungarian: eladó (hu), elárusító (hu), kereskedő (hu)
• Ido: vendisto (io)

• Italian: venditore (it) m, venditrice (it) f
• 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)
• Latin: venditor m, venditrix f
• Macedonian: продавач m (prodavač), продавачка f (prodavačka)
• Persian: فروشنده‎ (fa) (forušande)
• Portuguese: vendedor (pt) m, vendedora (pt) f, fornecedor (pt) m, fornecedora f
• 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) m, vendedora (es) f
• Swedish: säljare (sv) c, säljerska c (female), försäljare (sv) c, försäljerska (sv) c (female), återförsäljare (sv) c, återförsäljerska c (female)
• Thai: ผู้ขาย (pôo kăai)
• Turkish: satıcı (tr)
• Ukrainian: продаве́ць (uk) m (prodavécʹ), продавщи́ця f (prodavščýcja)
• Vietnamese: ngưởi bán hàng rong
• Yiddish: פֿאַרקויפֿער‎ m (farkoyfer) (person), פֿאַרקויפֿערין‎ f (farkoyferin) (person)

vending machine

• German: Verkaufsautomat (de) m, Warenautomat m, Automat (de) m, -automat m, Fahrscheinautomat m (ticket), ^{(please verify)} Münzautomat m (coin-operated)

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

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Latin

Verb

vēndor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of vēndō