vendor

English

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Alternative forms

• vender

Etymology

Borrowing 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, feminine vendress)

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.

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, 卖主 (zh) ‎(màizhǔ), 賣家, 卖家 (zh) ‎(màijiā), 賣方, 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
• 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 ‎(saduçı)
• Spanish: vendedor (es)
• Swedish: säljare (sv), återförsäljare (sv)
• Thai: ผู้ขาย ‎(pôo kăai)
• Turkish: satıcı (tr)
• Vietnamese: ngưởi bán hàng rong
• Yiddish: (person) פֿאַרקויפֿער m ‎(farkoyfer), (person) פֿאַרקויפֿערין f ‎(farkoyferin)

Synonyms

• merchant
• seller

Related terms

• vend
• vending machine
• vendor bid

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 a program.

See also

• Spanish: vender (to sell)

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Latin

Verb

vēndor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of vēndō