vendor
- a person or agency that sells.
- vending machine.
Origin of vendor
Related Words for vendors
merchant, peddler, hawker, dealer, traveler, businessperson, pitcher, hucksterExamples from the Web for vendors
Contemporary Examples of vendors
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.
Vendors in white tents lined the fan concourse, selling food, beer and merch.
Gone are the days when a few rows of vendors hawked books to hardcore fans.
Historical Examples of vendors
For years she had figured on the beach as one in the riot of vendors merely.
Mayflower (Flor de mayo)Vicente Blasco Ibez
Again there sounded in the distance the voices of the vendors of evening papers.
Mary GrayKatharine Tynan
The auctioneer stared with amazement at her simplicity, and said, "What would the vendors say to me?"
A SimpletonCharles Reade
As Sunday is a 111 fte-day, the vendors do a thriving business.
Italian Days and WaysAnne Hollingsworth Wharton
At the foot of the Spanish Steps are the vendors of flowers.
Italian Days and WaysAnne Hollingsworth Wharton
vendor
vender (ˈvɛndə)
- mainly law a person who sells something, esp real property
- another name for vending machine
Word Origin and History for vendors
vendor
1590s, from late Anglo-French vendor, from vendre "to vend," from Latin vendere "to sell" (see vend).