someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money
"The street vendor handed me a fresh bag of roasted chestnuts while counting out my change."
A person or a company that vends or sells.
"The food vendor set up her cart near the park entrance to sell fresh hot dogs to passing tourists."
In plain English: A vendor is a person or company that sells goods or services to customers.
"The street vendor sold fresh flowers to passersby in the morning market."
To bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one's own program.
"The developer decided to vendor the popular logging library directly into their project repository to avoid future dependency conflicts."
In plain English: To vendor means to sell goods or services, though this usage is rare and mostly found in older texts or specific business contexts where someone acts as an agent for another company.
"The local farmers will vendor their fresh produce at the weekend market."
Usage: Use this verb to describe bundling external libraries or tools directly into your software distribution rather than requiring users to install them separately. It is often contrasted with relying on system-wide packages, emphasizing self-containment and portability of the application.
The word vendor comes from the Old French vendeor and Latin venditor, which meant "seller." It entered English via Anglo-Norman to describe someone who sells goods.