Definition of "vendor"

vendor

/ˈvɛn.də/

noun
plural vendors
1. A person or a company that vends or sells.
  Quotations
  […] Tanee was accosted by certain good fellows, friends and boon companions, who condoled with him on his misfortunes—railed against the queen, and finally dragged him away to an illicit vender of spirits, in whose house the party got gloriously mellow.
  1847 March 30, Herman Melville, “Queen Pomaree”, in Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], page 309
  Travel is enlivened not only by the mixed company of French, Berbers, Arabs, and descendants of the Mediterranean-Corsairs who sit together indiscriminately, but also by itinerant vendors of macaroons, sweetmeats and the like, who, as long as they have a travel ticket, ply their wares unhindered by the [ticket] collectors.
  1950 May, “A Tunisian Electric Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 335
2. A vending machine.
  Quotations
  She left her duties guarding the cola vendor and brushed past Earl to the aisle with the creamed corn.
  2015, Jennifer Ott, Rays of Civilization, page 64
verb
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.
2. (transitive, software engineering) As the software vendor, to bundle one's own, possibly modified version of dependencies with a standard program.