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vendor

noun as in person who sells wares

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Example Sentences

Unlike vendors who shifted to the cloud tools like HR, CRM or ERP, Box has been building a way to manage content in the cloud.

Gartner noted that Apple had a better quarter than other smartphone vendors because of an improving market in China, where the iPhone-maker sells a significant number devices.

From Fortune

Because the couple is already deep in the process of planning a wedding and dealing with everyone from their own family members to vendors, Swann says guests shouldn’t give them anything else to think about.

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In the past, companies had limited options in commercial-grade databases from a handful of vendors.

They are then prompted to fill out a short questionnaire and post a job request without being required to select a particular service provider or vendor in advance.

If the vendor is hosting the device, what does their system look like in terms of firewalls and other protections?

“The same ones who killed them used to visit,” the vendor said.

I was buying a book from a vendor in a crowded, fluorescent-lit convention center.

Al-Shahzad failed to properly detonate his bomb and was reported to the New York police by a Muslim-American street vendor.

Titanic once bet a peanut vendor $10 he could throw a peanut across Times Square in New York.

A poor vendor of pamphlets and newspapers, coming out of a reading-room, was accused of selling books favorable to royalty.

A vendor or seller of property, may have for the money he is to receive a lien, which is nearly the same thing as a mortgage.

If thou be not a buyer of gold, nor a vendor of silver, tarry not at my door; I have no time for beggars.

The vendor said he could get fourpence a pound for the whole, and that it made capital Bristol board.

The vendor of stars looked at him in her direct serious fashion.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is another word for vendor?

Vendor is a word for a person, company, or other entity that sells things. When it’s an individual person selling things from a stall in a street market, the term street vendor is often used. More old-fashioned words for a person who sells things on the street include peddler and hawker.

Perhaps the closest synonym for vender is seller. It gets at exactly what a vendor does—sells things—and it can be used for both individuals and companies.

Similar words include merchant and retailer. More specific words include dealer and supplier, which both are most often used in the context of businesses that sell to other businesses. (They’re sometimes also used in illegal contexts.)

What is a third party vendor?

The term third party vendor refers to a business that is authorized to provide goods or services to customers on the behalf of the main business. The term third party is used because the additional business is tangential to the transactional relationship between the primary business and the customer.

Another word for third party vender is third party seller. For example, the retailer Amazon features many third party sellers, some of which you can also buy from directly without using Amazon’s fulfillment services.

How do you use vendor in a sentence?

The word vendor is a common word in the context of commerce involving all kinds of businesses.

Here are some examples of vendors in a sentence:

  • The fair had hundreds of food vendors offering all kinds of delicious fried foods —it was heaven.
  • Vendors across the region have been seeing their sales increase by large margins.
  • We reached out to our vendors to inquire about the shipping delays.

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On this page you'll find 30 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to vendor, such as: dealer, hawker, merchant, peddler, businessperson, and huckster.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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