Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who vends or sells; a seller: as, a news-vender.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who vends; one who transfers the exclusive right of possessing a thing, either his own, or that of another as his agent, for a price or pecuniary equivalent; a seller; a vendor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete spelling of
vendor .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money
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Examples
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The vender is working to pay for that night's meal.
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The vender is working to pay for that night's meal.
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This little basket vender is but one of thousands, but we find he is the first one to wear his white shirt without tying the two sides together in a knot in front.
Six Months in Mexico 1888
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Judy, if I’m hearing this right, it sounds like when the vender is “acquiescing” and asking the question: ¿Me da un precio?
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The 'rental' model implies long-term vender control over the use and applications of such software, with associated communications between user PCs and vender servers for ongoing authentication and other purposes. "
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The vender was a venerable Irishman with a benevolent face and a tongue that worked easily in the socket, and from him we learned that he had lived in St. Louis thirty-four years and had never been across the river during that period.
Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872
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The vender was a venerable Irishman with a benevolent face and a tongue that worked easily in the socket, and from him we learned that he had lived in St. Louis thirty-four years and had never been across the river during that period.
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The young gentleman had bought a light sky-blue neckerchief, and a very large breast-pin containing a gem which he was assured by the vender was a genuine stone.
The Guardian Angel Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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The young gentleman had bought a light sky-blue neckerchief, and a very large breast-pin containing a gem which he was assured by the vender was a genuine stone.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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If the noise is unacceptable "TO YOU" a journey back to the vender is the only real solution ..
slumry commented on the word vender
OED says: "One who sells; a seller; sometimes in restricted sense, a street-seller."
I have seen it used only in the restricted sense, such as the "food venders" at fairs.
August 1, 2007
arby commented on the word vender
AmHer has it as "a variant of vendor", proving that I am not completely insane.
August 1, 2007