vendor

CEFRB2

/ˈvɛn.də/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person or company that sells goods or services.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A vending machine.

Examples

  • Before opening his diner, John was a simple hot dog vendor.

  • The ice cream vendor is waiting on customers at his outdoor stand.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
3
Synonyms
2

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. To bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one's own program.

  2. A person or a company that vends or sells.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. As the software vendor, to bundle one's own, possibly modified version of dependencies with a standard program.

More examples

In context

  • 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.

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

  • She left her duties guarding the cola vendor and brushed past Earl to the aisle with the creamed corn.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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”).