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buyer
English
Etymology
From buy +? -er
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ba?.?(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /?ba?.?/, IPA(key): [?baj?]
- Rhymes: -a??(r)
Noun
buyer (plural buyers)
- A person who makes one or more purchases.
- Every person who steps through the door is a potential buyer, so acknowledge their presence.
- (retailing) A person who purchases items for resale in a retail establishment.
- The supermarket's new buyer decided to stock a larger range of vegetarian foods.
- (manufacturing) A person who purchases items consumed or used as components in the manufacture of products.
Synonyms
- purchaser
- (retailing and manufacturing senses): purchasing agent
Derived terms
- buyer's remorse
Translations
Anagrams
- burye, rebuy
buyer From the web:
- what buyers want in a house
- what buyers are looking for in a house
- what buyers need to know
- what buyers want in 2021
- what buyer brings to closing
- what buyer pays at closing
- what buyers want in a kitchen
- what buyers need to bring to closing
vendor
English
Alternative forms
- vender
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?v?n.d?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?v?n.d?/
- Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
- Homophone: Venda (in non-rhotic accents)
Noun
vendor (plural vendors)
- A person or a company that vends or sells.
- A vending machine.
- 2015, Jennifer Ott, Rays of Civilization (page 64)
- She left her duties guarding the cola vendor and brushed past Earl to the aisle with the creamed corn.
- 2015, Jennifer Ott, Rays of Civilization (page 64)
Synonyms
- merchant
- seller
Related terms
- vend
- vending machine
- vendor bid
- vendue
Translations
Verb
vendor (third-person singular simple present vendors, present participle vendoring, simple past and past participle vendored)
- (transitive, software engineering) 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.
- (transitive, software engineering) 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.
Anagrams
- Verdon, droven
Latin
Verb
v?ndor
- first-person singular present passive indicative of v?nd?
vendor From the web:
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- what vendors are leaving hsn
- what vendors accept bitcoin
- what vendors accept venmo
- what vendors are needed for a wedding
- what vendors accept paypal
- what vendors use afterpay
- what vendors report to dun and bradstreet
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