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vendor

Pronunciation: /ˈvɛn.də/

The English word “vendor” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A person or a company that vends or sells.
  2. A vending machine.

verb

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

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”).

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