vendor

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/ˈvɛn.də/ English

Definitions

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.“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.”
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.”

Related words

Synonyms

merchant seller vender trafficker retailer trader dealer salesman reseller salesperson selling provider shopkeeper clerk source buyer

Associated

vendors purchaser stalls proprietary customer analytics unix clue inventory sells supplier

Rhymes

tender render splendor slender engender surrender pretender bender contender fender

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