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

(transitive, software engineering) To bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one's own program.

plural of vendor

simple past tense and past participle of vendor

present participle of vendor

(law) An implied lien (that is, one not created by mortgage or other express agreement) given in equity to a vendor of lands for the unpaid purchase money.

plural of vendor's lien

Not tied to the products of a specific manufacturer.

An independent consultant who will recommend products from several companies.

(finance) A type of bid at an auction which is made by the auctioneer on behalf of the vendor, without any desire to buy the article. This is used as a tactic to keep the bids moving, or to persuade buyers to pay more, or merely to have a higher price to report if the property is passed in. Such a bid is in essence a fiction; if not clearly announced as such, it approaches the deliberate deception of a dummy bid.