vendor

[ ven-der; especially contrastively ven-dawr ]
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noun
  1. a person or agency that sells.

Origin of vendor

1
1585–95; <Anglo-French vendo(u)r<Latin venditor.See vend, -or2

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How to use vendor in a sentence

  • Like vendors of drugs, their aim is to catch popular credit and favour, and to seize every opportunity of enriching themselves.

  • Should we not call up the wretched women of our streets; the bribers and the vendors of privilege?

  • There were the Italian peripatetic vendors of weather-glasses, who had their headquarters at Norwich.

    The Life of George Borrow | Herbert Jenkins
  • After all, Tono-Bungay is still a marketable commodity and in the hands of purchasers, who bought it from—among other vendors—me.

    Tono Bungay | H. G. Wells
  • Considering their abilities the vendors of the Gospel are among the best paid men in the world to-day.

    The Bible | John E. Remsburg

British Dictionary definitions for vendor

vendor

vender (ˈvɛndə)

/ (ˈvɛndɔː) /


noun
  1. mainly law a person who sells something, esp real property

  2. another name for vending machine

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