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[ven-der; especially contrastively ven-dawr]

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noun

a person or agency that sells.

vending machine.

Also, vender.

Origin:
1585–95; < Anglo-French vendo(u)r < Latin venditor. See vend, -or²

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Example Sentences

Indeed, the leader of the largest art vendor group is already preparing a legal attack on the new regulations.

Now the library has contracted this out to some external vendor.

The city's vendor contracts, expense reports and various other things have already been there for about a year.

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Indeed, the leader of the largest art vendor group is already preparing a legal attack on the new regulations.

Now the library has contracted this out to some external vendor.

The city's vendor contracts, expense reports and various other things have already been there for about a year.

The events surrounding the vendor will not affect the operation," the team said.

Breaking molecular bonds of hydrocarbons would not be any advantage except for the vendor of this bit of woo.

If you think you may need extra parts, choose a kit by a vendor that also sells individual pieces.

But even now, no software vendor likes to issue patches.

They say they can settle any disputes that might arise when more than one vendor wants to work at the same location.

Maybe because they didn't pay for it from a vendor or who knows but they later went outside to get it developed.

Huawei's reputation as a low-cost vendor is only the visible part of the iceberg, he says.

The brown handball-size fruit the vendor offers me looks positively rotten.

It turns out that making them at home is as fun as buying them from the ice cream vendor.

The agency failed to delete data on the drive before sending it to the vendor.

Quotes and other information supplied by independent providers identified on the vendor disclosures page.

And what were they ever but for a proprietary vendor based on an open source platform.

If you are in a city when it starts to rain, look around for an umbrella vendor.

The vendor representative is supposed to examine the machines for missing or damaged parts.

It's harder to envision a commodity vendor such as a gas station making money with this concept.

If you are using a different browser, look for similar instructions from the browser's vendor.

Check with your tax adviser or solar vendor for information on current federal incentives.

At noon each day, a vendor parks outside our office window, and the smell rises up.

It usually takes a librarian working directly with the database vendor and the end-user to settle the problem.

The codes also say that no vendor can install uncertified software on voting systems.

For example, a company might pay an overseas vendor to handle its payroll, benefits and other personnel-related matters.

Also, there is often risk sharing between the vendor and the television channel that screens the infomercial.

As for getting a refund, you'll have to work with the vendor from whom you purchased the product.

One vendor site shows the dearth of imagination present in gift marketing departments.

Once it became clear that this claim would be tested, the vendor was never heard of again.

Ausenbaugh intends to act as a vendor to biotech companies developing transgenic crops that contain pharmaceuticals.

In technology, it is a covenant between vendor and customer.

The bill also requires a vendor to disclose any flaws it already knows about systems that are currently in use in the state.

The use of common standards that are not owned by any particular vendor has benefits.

But in one message, a spammer slams an underground vendor for selling him a fake iBill list.

Mozilla says it will let each browser vendor dictate how it presents the app dashboards and management features.

Economically, this is the same as imposing an out of state vendor to collect use tax on behalf of a state.

One message is from a vendor selling skimmers to attach to bank-card readers to sniff the card data.

Things of the exact same quality cost much less for both vendor and buyer.

As it is those opportunities have primarily been a housing bubble financed by recycled vendor loans.

Or forcing them to buy a product from a private vendor in pursuit of a public good, in this case national defense.

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World English Dictionary

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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Word Origin & History

vendor

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

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