different between supplier vs vendor

English

Etymology

supply +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??pla??/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)

Noun

supplier (plural suppliers)

1. One who supplies; a provider.
2. (soccer) Someone who assists (sets up) a goal.

Related terms

• supplement
• supply

Translations

See also

• provider
• purveyor
• vendor

Anagrams

• periplus

French

Etymology

Modified based on the original Latin prefix sup-, from Old French souploier, sosploier, from Latin supplic?re, present active infinitive of supplic?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.pli.je/

Verb

supplier

1. (transitive) to implore, to beseech, to beg

Conjugation

Related terms

• supplication

Further reading

• “supplier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

Verb

supplier

1. second-person singular imperative of supplieren

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?