vendor

English

Alternative forms

• vender

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman vendor (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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛn.də/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛn.dɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
• Homophone: Venda (non-rhotic)

Noun

vendor (plural vendors)

1. A person or a company that vends or sells.
   • 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, “Queen Pomaree”, in Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 309:

     […] Tanee was accosted by certain good fellows, friends and boon companions, who condoled with him on his misfortunes—railed against the queen, and finally dragged him away to an illicit vender of spirits, in whose house the party got gloriously mellow.

   • 1950 May, “A Tunisian Electric Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 335:

     Travel is enlivened not only by the mixed company of French, Berbers, Arabs, and descendants of the Mediterranean-Corsairs who sit together indiscriminately, but also by itinerant vendors of macaroons, sweetmeats and the like, who, as long as they have a travel ticket, ply their wares unhindered by the [ticket] collectors.

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.

Synonyms

• merchant
• seller

Derived terms

• ice cream vendor
• vendor-agnostic
• vendor bid
• vendor locator

 

Related terms

• vend
• vending machine
• vendue

Translations

a person or a company that vends or sells

• Albanian: shitës (sq), tregtar (sq)
• Arabic: بَائِع m (bāʔiʕ), بَيَّاع (bayyāʕ)
• Bashkir: һатыусы (hatıwsı)
• Belarusian: прадаве́ц m (pradavjéc), прадаўшчы́ца f (pradaŭščýca)
• Bikol Central: paratinda
• Bulgarian: продава́ч m (prodaváč), продава́чка f (prodaváčka)
• Catalan: venedor (ca) m, venedora (ca) f
• Chechen: йохкархо (joxkarxo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 賣主うりぬし／卖主 (zh) (màizhǔ), 賣うれ家か／卖家 (zh) (màijiā), 賣うれ方かた／卖方 (zh) (màifāng)

• Czech: prodejce (cs) m
• Danish: sælger (da) c, sælgerinde c (female), sælgekone c (female), sælgerske c (female), leverandør c
• Dutch: leverancier (nl) m or f
• Finnish: myyjä (fi), kauppias (fi), toimittaja (fi)
• French: vendeur (fr), vendeuse (fr) f, marchand (fr) m, marchande (fr) f, commerçant (fr) m, commerçante (fr) f
• Friulian: venditôr m
• Georgian: გამყიდველი (gamq̇idveli), მოვაჭრე (movač̣re), ვენდორი (vendori) (slang)
• German: Anbieter (de) m, Vertreiber m, Lieferant (de) m, Lieferantin (de) f, Lieferer m, Lieferin f, Verkäufer (de) m, Verkäuferin (de) f
• Greek: πωλητής (el) m (politís), πωλήτρια (el) f (polítria)

  Ancient: πωλητής m (pōlētḗs), πωλήτρια f (pōlḗtria), (suffix) -πώλης m (-pṓlēs)

• Haitian Creole: machann
• Hungarian: eladó (hu), elárusító (hu), kereskedő (hu)
• Ido: vendisto (io)
• Ingrian: mööjä
• Italian: venditore (it) m, venditrice (it) f
• Japanese: 売うり手て (ja) (うりて, urite), 販売はんばい者しゃ (はんばいしゃ, hanbaisha)
• Khmer: អ្នកលក់ (neak lʊək), ឈ្មួញ (km) (cmuəɲ)
• Latin: venditor m, venditrix f
• Macedonian: продавач m (prodavač), продавачка f (prodavačka)
• Maori: kaihoko, kirihoko
• Ottoman Turkish: بایع (bayiʼ)
• Persian: فروشنده (fa) (forušande)
• Portuguese: vendedor (pt) m, vendedora (pt) f, fornecedor (pt) m, fornecedora f
• 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 (sadučï)
• Spanish: vendedor (es) m, vendedora (es) f
• Swedish: säljare (sv) c, säljerska c (female), försäljare (sv) c, försäljerska (sv) c (female), återförsäljare (sv) c, återförsäljerska c (female)
• Thai: ผู้ขาย (pôo kăai)
• Turkish: satıcı (tr)
• Ukrainian: продаве́ць (uk) m (prodavécʹ), продавщи́ця f (prodavščýcja)
• Vietnamese: ngưởi bán hàng rong
• Yiddish: פֿאַרקויפֿער m (farkoyfer) (person), פֿאַרקויפֿערין f (farkoyferin) (person)

vending machine

• Finnish: automaatti (fi), jakeluautomaatti
• German: Verkaufsautomat (de) m, Warenautomat m, Automat (de) m, -automat m, Fahrscheinautomat m (ticket), ^{(please verify)} Münzautomat (de) m (coin-operated)

Further reading

• vendor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

vendor (third-person singular simple present vendors, present participle vendoring, simple past and past participle vendored)

1. (transitive, software engineering) To bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one's own program.

   I distributed my application with a vendored copy of Perl so that it wouldn't use the system copies of Perl where it is installed.

2. (transitive, software engineering) As the software vendor, to bundle one's own, possibly modified version of dependencies with a standard program.

   Strawberry Perl contains vendored copies of some CPAN modules, designed to allow them to run on Windows.

Anagrams

• Verdon, droven

Albanian

Etymology

From vendos (“to decide, to place”) +‎ -or (“forming adjectives”).

Adjective

vendor (feminine vendore)

1. local

Derived terms

• vendore

Latin

Verb

vēndor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of vēndō