vendor

[ ven-der; especially contrastively ven-dawr ]

/ ˈvɛn dər; especially contrastively vɛnˈdɔr /

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noun

a person or agency that sells.

vending machine.

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Also vender.

Origin of vendor

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

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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.
I Ate Potato Pancakes Til I Plotzed|Emily Shire|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Most of the vendors were, like this woman, honorary Jews for the night, not that Jews have a monopoly on potato pancakes.
I Ate Potato Pancakes Til I Plotzed|Emily Shire|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“The bigger issue is that vendors are not held accountable for writing insecure code,” says researcher Rios.
How Your Pacemaker Will Get Hacked|Kaiser Health News|November 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Meanwhile, civilians are seeing their income fall—between 20 and 50 percent—and vendors are watching sales drop by half.
Liberia’s Ebola Famine|Abby Haglage, Nina Strochlic|November 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Therefore, he started hiring vendors like a “papusa lady” and a pizza guy to come and cook up made-to-order snacks.
L.A.’s Cool-Kid Backyard Concert Series—Kensington Presents|Sara Lieberman|October 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Like vendors of drugs, their aim is to catch popular credit and favour, and to seize every opportunity of enriching themselves.
The Histories of Polybius, Vol. II (of 2)|Polybius
Should we not call up the wretched women of our streets; the bribers and the vendors of privilege?
The Common Sense of Socialism|John Spargo
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

mainly law a person who sells something, esp real property

another name for vending machine

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British Dictionary definitions for vendor

vender (ˈvɛndə)