vendor
[ ven-der; especially contrastively ven-dawr ]
/ ˈvɛn dər; especially contrastively vɛnˈdɔr /
noun
a person or agency that sells.
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Origin of vendor
1585–95; <Anglo-French
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How to use vendor in a sentence
Still, when I saw the menu of latkes the different vendors offered, I was a bit taken aback.
Most of the vendors were, like this woman, honorary Jews for the night, not that Jews have a monopoly on potato pancakes.
“The bigger issue is that vendors are not held accountable for writing insecure code,” says researcher Rios.
Meanwhile, civilians are seeing their income fall—between 20 and 50 percent—and vendors are watching sales drop by half.
Therefore, he started hiring vendors like a “papusa lady” and a pizza guy to come and cook up made-to-order snacks.
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.
After all, Tono-Bungay is still a marketable commodity and in the hands of purchasers, who bought it from—among other vendors—me.
Considering their abilities the vendors of the Gospel are among the best paid men in the world to-day.
British Dictionary definitions for vendor
noun
mainly law a person who sells something, esp real property
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