Definition of VENDOR

vendor

Plural: vendors

Noun

  • A person or company offering goods or services for sale.
  • 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.

Examples

  • 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.
  • Strawberry Perl contains vendored copies of some CPAN modules, designed to allow them to run on Windows.
  • The game’s dictionary acts as the ultimate VENDOR of valid words.

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

Words With Friends Score: 12

vendor: valid Words With Friends Word