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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
vendor
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
independent
▪ Some have to be dealt with using adhoc, independent software vendor solutions at present, such as application development environments and distributed databases.
■ NOUN
company
▪ Such liabilities may include repayment of inter-company loans owed to the vendor company.
▪ Intra-group hive-down to target company Often there will be a conflict between what the vendor company and Newco want from the transaction.
▪ If there is an assets sale to Newco, the vendor company will be liable to tax.
shareholder
▪ Obviously the position is modified if vendor shareholders of Target are to take shares or loan notes in Newco.
software
▪ Misuse of any duplication program could result in proceedings against you by a software vendor.
▪ Some have to be dealt with using adhoc, independent software vendor solutions at present, such as application development environments and distributed databases.
■ VERB
ask
▪ In addition, the purchaser may ask the vendor to warrant the certificate of title.
▪ I asked the vendor whether the physicians buy this for weight loss.
▪ The purchaser should ask the vendor for a copy of the shareholders' agreement, assuming that the vendor is a party.
▪ Later ask the vendor to demonstrate how to operate the controls for domestic hot water and heating.
▪ If equipment or fittings are being removed, ask the vendor how the service connection will be left.
provide
▪ This depends on the speed of connection needed and the reputation of the vendor that provides the service.
require
▪ Therefore, a purchaser would avoid automatically assuming liabilities by requiring a vendor to dismiss all or some employees prior to completion.
wish
▪ The risk to the purchaser in this solution is that the vendor may still wish to pursue debtors.
▪ In addition, the vendor may wish to take a charge over the assets being sold.
▪ Also it should not be assumed that the vendor will wish solely to extract the profit from the company.
▪ The vendor will wish to protect their ability to maximise payments under the earn out.
▪ Ideally the vendor will wish to retain absolute control over the way in which the business is managed.
▪ The vendor will subsequently wish to disclose all such documents against the warranties.
▪ Many purchasers will acknowledge that the vendor will wish to limit its liability and incorporate these basic provisions in the initial draft.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a computer vendor
▪ a hot-dog vendor
▪ Flags sold by street vendors fluttered in the crowd of about 5,000.
▪ Frank stopped to buy the evening paper from a news vendor.
▪ Outside the theatre, there was a row of flower vendors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ideally the purchaser would wish to have the vendor negotiate actively with the purchaser on an exclusive basis during an initial period.
▪ In addition, the purchaser may ask the vendor to warrant the certificate of title.
▪ The official reason was that I accepted a gift from a vendor, something which I was told violated company policy.
▪ The risk to the purchaser in this solution is that the vendor may still wish to pursue debtors.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vendor

Vendor \Vend"or\, n. [See Vender.] A vender; a seller; the correlative of vendee.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
vendor

1590s, from late Anglo-French vendor, from vendre "to vend," from Latin vendere "to sell" (see vend). More common in legal use than vender.

Wiktionary
vendor

n. A person or a company that vends or sells.

WordNet
vendor

n. someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money [syn: seller, marketer, vender, trafficker]

Wikipedia
Vendor

In a supply chain, a vendor, or a seller, is an enterprise that contributes goods or services. Generally, a supply chain vendor manufactures inventory/stock items and sells them to the next link in the chain. Today, the terms refers to a supplier of any good or service.

Usage examples of "vendor".

It was Sandy Wan, the woman who would later help me track down the truth about the abortus vendors.

Using partners and vendors not only allows big pharma to fill in the gaps in its bioinformatics capabilities but also gives it the mobility to adapt new technologies as they come onto the market rather than constantly overhauling its own systems.

These occasions were the great sporting events of the time, attracting crowds of bourgeois spectators from rich merchants to common artisans, mountebanks, food vendors, prostitutes, and pickpockets.

Heavy carts laden with barrels of beer, crates of produce and animals made their way past noisy motorcars and shining black Hansom carriages to the Byward Market where vendors called their wares in French and English.

Both copier technologies required special paper and supplies, creating an aftermarket revenue stream for vendors.

As the vendor was my negro, there could be no doubt as to whom it belonged, and who had been its master of languages.

Although Brennan never took a bribe or emolument from any city worker or vendor, the police commissioner was not above taking advantage of certain perks of his office, such as a city-owned cabin at the city reservoir or a city car.

A place like the Fest might have the atmosphere of a carnival, but the really hard-core vendors were out there, and they knew the value of what they were selling down to the penny.

There was the chug-chug-chug of the fishing fleet just slipping into the bay, gulls thickening like a halo around them, and the one-eyed gaseosa vendor setting up his cart hopefully, unfolding his little deck chair, and then promptly falling asleep.

Morit was constantly outraged and furious at neighbors who used their leaf blowers in the middle of the night, their hordes of barking dogs, revving engines, occasional gunfire, jangly music from street vendors, loud music just when he was trying to get some sleep.

All the Odessa kvass vendors were as spruce and handsome as a picture.

With the possible exception of the kvass vendors, the staff clerks were the most elegant, best-dressed and handsomest fellows in town.

Meals and munchies are rarely served at major crime scenes, except for the occasional Sno-Cone vendor.

Politely shaking my head I pushed past their sudden cries of protest and at the nosh vendor.

The traffic sounds, roar of conversations on the veranda, motor scooters, and vendors hawking everything salable overpowered the band, reducing it to an occasional cymbal-clash, an oompah now and then.