vendor

Meaning

Noun

1. A person or a company that vends or sells.
2. A vending machine.

Verb

1. To bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one's own program.
2. As the software vendor, to bundle one's own, possibly modified version of dependencies with a standard program.

Synonyms

seller

merchant

salesman

vender

dealer

salesperson

trader

shopkeeper

saleswoman

attendant

businessman

marketer

peddler

provider

supplier

trafficker

store owner

distributer

consignor

clerk

caterer

shipper

shop assistant

cashier

slot machine

🎰

sales man

buyer

vender

bargainer

vending machine

sales clerk

hawker

shop boy

pedlar

bargainor

sales assistant

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈvɛn.də/

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”).