Other forms: vendors
A vendor is a person selling from a small street stand. A street vendor, the hot dog vendor, licensed vendors.
In law it is the technical word for the seller in a property sale, which is why it appears on contracts. In business a vendor is any supplier. Street vending is licensed and often restricted, and enforcement against it is a recurring source of conflict in cities.
1nounvendorA person selling from a small stand.
“We bought hot chestnuts from a street vendor.”
vendor is a seller.
Also accepted in games: seller
Anglo-Norman vendor comes from Latin venditor, a seller, from vendere, to sell.
Proto-Indo-European
*deh₃-
Latin
venditor — seller
Anglo-Norman
vendor
English, today
vendor
Built from
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman vendor (Old French vendeor), from Latin venditor (“seller”), from vendere (“to sell, cry up for sale, praise”), contraction of venundare, venumdare, also, as originally, two words venum dare (“to sell”), from venum (“sale, price”) + dare (“to give”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA