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vend

[ vend ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

to sell as one's business or occupation, especially by peddling:
to vend flowers at a sidewalk stand.
to give utterance to (opinions, ideas, etc.); publish.

vend

/ vɛnˈdɪʃən; vɛnd /

Origin of vend¹

1610–20; < Latin vendere to sell, contraction of vēnum (or vēnō ) dare to offer for sale; venal

Origin of vend¹

C17: from Latin vendere, contraction of vēnum dare to offer for sale

In that case, finding a location to vend in the central business district could be tough.

The candle was yet in his hand, showing him my bulk, and perhaps the small clothes he had longed to vend.

She looked at me with contempt, "Les ballons, ca ne se vend pas, ca se donne."

The room every night has the appearance of a market-place, where beggars vend and where beggars are the purchasers.

Le ciel nous vend toujours les biens quil nous prodigue, may be applied to my poor Father emphatically.

The Christianity of Tennyson is a very different thing from the Christianity they vend to the credulous multitude.

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