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VENDING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vending mean?
• VENDING (noun)
The noun VENDING has 1 sense:
1. the act of selling goods for a living
Familiarity information: VENDING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of selling goods for a living
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
hawking; peddling; vending; vendition
Hypernyms ("vending" is a kind of...):
marketing; merchandising; selling (the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money)
Derivation:
vend (sell or offer for sale from place to place)
Context examples
The four people who got the sham stimulation during both visits consumed the same number of calories from the vending machines on each visit and did not lose weight.
(Brain stimulation limits calories consumed in adults with obesity, NIH)
She had a turn for traffic, and a marked propensity for saving; shown not only in the vending of eggs and chickens, but also in driving hard bargains with the gardener about flower-roots, seeds, and slips of plants; that functionary having orders from Mrs. Reed to buy of his young lady all the products of her parterre she wished to sell: and Eliza would have sold the hair off her head if she could have made a handsome profit thereby.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Participants then ate and drank as much as they wanted from computerized vending machines.
(Brain stimulation limits calories consumed in adults with obesity, NIH)
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