A vendor is a person or company that sells goods or services. Vendors can sell in markets, on streets, online, or to other businesses.
From Latin 'venditor', meaning 'seller', from 'vendere' meaning 'to sell'. It came into English through Anglo-French legal and business language.
‘Vendor’ sounds formal, but it’s just a fancy word for ‘seller’. In tech and business, calling someone a vendor turns a human shopkeeper into a role in a system. It shows how language can make everyday actions—like selling fruit—sound like corporate operations.
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