vendor

English

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)

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 (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 (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.

Anagrams

• Verdon, droven

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Latin

Verb

vēndor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of vēndō