Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that sells or vends: a street vendor; a vendor of software products on the Web.
- n. A vending machine.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as vender, but more common in legal use. In the law of conveyancing the word is commonly used in reference to the preliminary or executory contract of sale, usually made in writing before the execution of a deed to transfer the title, and designates him who agrees to sell, and who after he has actually conveyed is commonly called the grantor. So if A contracts, not as agent but on his own account, to sell and convey property belonging to B, and procures B to convey accordingly, A is the vendor and B the grantor.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A vender; a seller; the correlative of vendee.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money
Etymologies
- From 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"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Answer: Replacing a vendor is always difficult, especially if it is someone who you depend on and have been working with for a long time.”
“This vendor is the only organization that creates outreach kits for amateur astronomy clubs located across the country.”
“Anyway, the vendor is a young woman and she presses out the fresh masa to make the tortilla, fills it with whatever you want, but her mole is good, then seals it and slides it into the hot oil that fills the well in her comal/braizer and fries them until golden brown.”
“In some cases, ongoing support and relationship with a vendor is a critical portion of the package.”
“We have manufactured spare parts and what we call vendor or purchase parts.”
“The other thing that's important is that there that the battle is being fought at the point of sale, so media isn't as relevant as we thought it would be, so when you see adjustments being made on TSUBO and Simple we really dialing back the media stand, you won't see the prevalence in the print publications that we had anticipated doing, but we are still going to drive the presentation at point of sale, with VSM which is what we call vendor support money we are doing more clinics, we just recently did a series of clinics and product events that Nordstrom around Earth Day that were very successful, very solid sell through on Simple's product.”
“The vendor is listed on the factura as: MejorCompraTV, the shipping charges were $346.08 Pesos, and the IVA was $364.18 Pesos.”
“Somehow I doubt it, which means Verizon, Nikon or some independent vendor is going to have to come up with a way to recoup those costs.”
“The next step for a technology vendor is to ensure that software could then provision the most appropriate hardware automatically in the cloud.”
“The key for success as a platform vendor is to bring down costs by automating as much of the IT work as possible.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vendor’.
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cgrimm's list
Words I like or find interesting
boondoggle, kerfuffel, schadenfreude, possierlich, vendor, skidaddle, apfelsine, fodder, scapegrace, die tarnung, tarnkappe, shampoo and 16 more...
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Legal personal relationship words
Weird words that specify specific aspects of people's legal relationships. ee/or pairs are the best, but sadly not all ees and ors have an associated opposite..
legatee, settlor, beneficiary, mortgagee, mortgagor, lessor, lessee, purchaser, vendor, testator, testatrix, trustee and 19 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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TN5 Lesson 49
nurse, moon, up, sky, fall, light pole, crash, come up, wrote, make, mistakes, candid and 21 more...
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get thee behind me, Satan!
Or, words I hate but they're omnipresent
inchoate, schadenfreude, internecine, sacerdotal, harbinger, paradigm, gestalt, blubber, zaftig, pulsate, antidisestablishm..., suppurating and 9 more...
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Business
Tweets
Looking for tweets for vendor.
uselessness My first thought upon finding this site was "Bah! They spelled wordy wrong." Aug 1, 2007
seanahan I prefer 1337 w0rdz0r Aug 1, 2007
reesetee Wordors? Not me! I'm a Wordinista. ;-) Aug 1, 2007
arby Indeed. /Teal'c Aug 1, 2007
slumry Or we could go the other directions and call ourselves Wordors. Aug 1, 2007
arby Then we can change Wordie to "Worde" and be totally hip. Aug 1, 2007
arby VARIANT FORMS: vender
NOUN: 1. One that sells or vends: a street vendor; a vendor of software products on the Web. 2. A vending machine. Aug 1, 2007
slumry OED says: "late Anglo-French; earlier vendour from the French vendeur. One who disposes of a thing by sale; a seller." Cf. vender Aug 1, 2007
arby Ha! The splendour of our vendours is surpassed only by the squalour in which they operate. Aug 1, 2007
john I haven't seen that, and hope not to, it's ridiculous. Might as well go Web 2.0 on it and call them vendrs.
I wonder, do the English refer to vendours? Aug 1, 2007
arby WTF is up with the recent change in spelling of this word - I never liked vendor, but lately I noticed the New Yorker is spelling it vender. Am I crazy or has anyone else seen it? Aug 1, 2007