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vendor

noun verb

A person or a company that vends or sells.

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Word Facts

Word length
6
Starts with
V
Ends with
R
Contains
EN
Scrabble score
10
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

How it sounds

Pronunciation

/ˈvɛn.də/ /ˈvɛn.dɚ/

Meaning

Definitions

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.

    “I distributed my application with a vendored copy of Perl so that it wouldn't use the system copies of Perl where it is installed.”

  2. As the software vendor, to bundle one's own, possibly modified version of dependencies with a standard program.

    “Strawberry Perl contains vendored copies of some CPAN modules, designed to allow them to run on Windows.”

In context

Example Sentences

I distributed my application with a vendored copy of Perl so that it wouldn't use the system copies of Perl where it is installed.
Strawberry Perl contains vendored copies of some CPAN modules, designed to allow them to run on Windows.

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