vendor

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vend·or /ˈvendə $ -ər/ noun [countableC]

1 SELLsomeone who sells things, especially on the street 〔尤指街上的〕小販

newspaper vendor/ice cream etc vendor

He bought a copy from a newspaper vendor.

他從報販那裏買了一份報紙。

the shouts of street vendors

街頭小販的吆喝聲

2 formal or law someone who is selling something 賣主；銷售商

leading software vendors

主要軟件銷售商

Examples from the Corpus

vendor• The official reason was that I accepted a gift from a vendor, something which I was told violated company policy.• a computer vendor• a hot-dog vendor• Outside the theatre, there was a row of flower vendors.• Frank stopped to buy the evening paper from a news vendor.• Flags sold by street vendors fluttered in the crowd of about 5,000.• In addition, the purchaser may ask the vendor to warrant the certificate of title.• Ideally the purchaser would wish to have the vendor negotiate actively with the purchaser on an exclusive basis during an initial period.• The risk to the purchaser in this solution is that the vendor may still wish to pursue debtors.

From Longman Business Dictionary

vendorvend·or /ˈvendə-ər/ noun [countableC] formalLAWCOMMERCE

someone who is selling something, especially a house or a piece of landSYN SELLER

House sales could dry up as vendors refuse to accept drastic price cuts.

leading software vendors

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