Vendor

Quick meaning: Vendor is a noun meaning A person or a company that vends or sells.

Meaning

A person or a company that vends or sells.

More Meanings

1. A vending machine.
2. (transitive, software engineering) To bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one's own program.
3. (transitive, software engineering) As the software vendor, to bundle one's own, possibly modified version of dependencies with a standard program.

Example Sentences

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

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

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.

[…] 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.

Word Forms

• vendors
• vender
• vendoring
• vendored

Synonyms for vendor

Depending on context, synonyms include merchant, seller, trafficker, vender.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include seller, vender, trafficker, merchant, retailer, trader.

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