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# vendor

«vendor» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person or company that sells something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a vendor, vendors)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A vendor is a person or company that sells something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vendor/#m1)

2) A vendor is also someone who sells food or goods in the street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vendor/#m2)

3) (law, money) The vendor is the person selling a house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vendor/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, ice-cream vendors sell at parks. In money and adult life, the vendor sells and the buyer buys. Phrases: street vendor, ice-cream vendor.

### examples

- We bought hot dogs from a street vendor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vendor/#x1)
- The vendor sold balloons at the fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vendor/#x2)
- The vendor of the house accepted the offer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vendor/#x3)
- Many vendors sell fruit at the market. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vendor/#x4)
- The ice-cream vendor rang a bell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vendor/#x5)
- The vendor gave us change. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vendor/#x6)

### note

Countable. Also spelled «vender» sometimes. Opposite in sales: buyer, purchaser.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vendor» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vendor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.