different between portfolio vs vendor

English

Etymology

From Italian portafoglio; cognate with French portefeuille (“folder, wallet”), from Latin port?re (“to carry”) and folium (“sheet”). The meaning "collection of responsibilities" came by extension in the 1930s.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??t?fo?.li?o?/, /-o?l.jo?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??t?f??.li???/, /-??l.j??/
• Rhymes: -??lj??

Noun

portfolio (plural portfolios)

1. A case for carrying papers, drawings, photographs, maps and other flat documents. [from 1720s]
3. (by extension) The collection of such documents, especially the works of an artist or photographer.
4. (politics) The post and the responsibilities of a cabinet minister or other head of a government department. [from 1930s]

   Synonym: ministry

6. (finance) The group of investments and other assets held by an investor. [from 1950s]
7. (business) A collection of assets generally.
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 378]:

     In the past, thoughts were too real to be kept like a cultural portfolio of stocks and bonds. But now we have mental assets.

8. A range of products.

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: portfólio, portfolio, portefólio

Translations

See also

• blad
• curriculum vitae
• repertoire

Further reading

• portfolio on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Noun

portfolio

1. portfolio

Declension

French

Pronunciation

Noun

portfolio m (plural portfolios)

1. portfolio

Polish

Etymology

From English portfolio, from Italian portafoglio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?r?tf?.l??/

Noun

portfolio n (indeclinable)

1. portfolio (case for carrying papers, drawings, photographs, maps and other flat documents)

Further reading

• portfolio in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• portfolio in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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)

1. A person or a company that vends or sells.
2. 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.

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)

1. (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.

2. (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

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of v?nd?