vendor

Meanings

Noun

• A person or a company that vends or sells.
• A vending machine.

Verb

• To bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one's own program.
• As the software vendor, to bundle one's own, possibly modified version of dependencies with a standard program.

Related

Similar words

• merchant
• seller

Origin

• Borrowed from Anglo-Norman vendor (Old French vendeor), from Latin venditor ("seller"), from vendere, contraction of venundare, venumdare, also, as originally, two words venum dare, from venum + dare.