vendor

[ven-der; especially contrastively ven-dawr] Example Sentences Origin

ven·dor

[ven-der; especially contrastively ven-dawr]
noun
1.
a person or agency that sells.
Also, vender.


Origin:
1585–95; < Anglo-French vendo(u)r < Latin venditor. See vend, -or2
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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
Example Sentences
  • If you think you may need extra parts, choose a kit by a vendor that also sells individual pieces.
  • If you are in a city when it starts to rain, look around for an umbrella vendor.
  • The brown handball-size fruit the vendor offers me looks positively rotten.
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vendor or vender (ˈvɛndɔː, ˈvɛndə)
 
n
1.  chiefly law a person who sells something, esp real property
2.  another name for vending machine
 
vender or vender
 
n

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vendor
1590s, from late Anglo-Fr. vendor, from vendre "to vend," from L. vendere "to sell" (see vend).
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