Definition of VENDOR

vendor

Meanings

Plural: vendors

Noun

  • someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money
  • A person or a company that vends or sells.
  • A vending machine.

Verb

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

Origin / 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”).

Scrabble Score: 10

vendor is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
vendor is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
vendor is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

vendor is a valid Words With Friends word