VENDOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vendor mean? 

• VENDOR (noun)
  The noun VENDOR has 1 sense:

1. someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money

  Familiarity information: VENDOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VENDOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

marketer; seller; trafficker; vender; vendor

Hypernyms ("vendor" is a kind of...):

merchandiser; merchant (a businessperson engaged in retail trade)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vendor"):

booking clerk; ticket agent (someone who sells tickets (e.g., theater seats or travel accommodations))

cosmetician (someone who sells or applies cosmetics)

flower girl (a woman who sells flowers in the street)

fruiterer (a person who sells fruit)

cheap-jack; huckster (a seller of shoddy goods)

hawker; packman; peddler; pedlar; pitchman (someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals))

selling agent (someone who sells goods (on commission) for others)

dealer (a seller of illicit goods)

underseller (a seller that sells at a lower price than others do)

Derivation:

vend (sell or offer for sale from place to place)

 Context examples 

The literal identifier of an electrocardiogram vendor.

(Electrocardiogram Vendor Name, NCI Thesaurus)

The United States-based Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) informed vendors on August 28.

(Digital security researchers publicly reveal vulnerability in WPA2 WiFi protocol, Wikinews)

The original vendors are the executors of the late Mr. Archibald Winter-Suffield.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

EXAMPLE(S): healthcare provider, adjudication committee, family member, radiologist, vendor (may provide a uniform assessment for all sites participating in a study), heart rate monitor, pace maker.

(Evaluator, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

It may combine the species, background strain, substrain, and associated genetic modifications as supplied by the vendor (e.g., C57BL/6, A/J, B6.129-Pparg<tm2Rev>/J, FISCHER 344, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY IGS, WISTAR Kyoto, BEAGLE, CYNOMOLGUS, RHESUS and CHIMPANZEE).

(CDISC SEND Laboratory Animal Strain Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Though, indeed, the vendor of a certain nostrum has vulgarised the truism to the very point of contempt. Isn't that true, doctor?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Vanhoef notified vendors about the flaw in July, including UNIX-like operating system OpenBSD.

(Digital security researchers publicly reveal vulnerability in WPA2 WiFi protocol, Wikinews)