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Definition

someone who sells goods or services

My school is looking for a new vendor to provide food and service in the cafeteria.

vendor = someone who sells a good or service

Vendors move along the lines of stalled traffic selling flowers, soft drinks and live kittens.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld

vendors = people who sells goods or services

But she came back with a bag of roasted chestnuts from a street vendor.
Jerry Spinelli -- Milkweed

vendor = someone who sells things

A tamale vendor calls out as he rounds the corner.
Tennessee Williams -- A Streetcar Named Desire

vendor = someone who sells goods or services

He waved at one of the hot dog vendors.
Robert Lipsyte -- The Contender

vendors = someone who sells goods or services

I went to the small shop as I did each morning, Puli in eager step beside me, and the vendor hailed me as an old customer.
Kamala Markandaya -- Nectar in a Sieve
The defendant puts in a plea of incompetency on the part of the vendor: this is the legal question to be resolved.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
Departing, he visited a movie theater, where, uncharacteristically, he chatted with an usher and a candy vendor.
Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
The vendor observing this, increased in loquacity.
Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist
Hazy clean sunlight of a town out of the range of the coal vendors.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Neither Barbara, nor Frank, nor John, nor I could keep the gang away from the souvenir vendors that flourished on every corner.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
In Charleston, black vendors began to sell fresh tomatoes and okra in the city market.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
Everyone carries at least a little cash—for the occasional vendor on the sidewalk, the Pepsi machine, the kid who brings the pizza.
J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
Behind her was a vendor's table full of tourist souvenirs, and a poster that read: NEW MEXICO: LAND OF ENCHANTMENT.
Rick Riordan -- The Red Pyramid
Then there was silence, except for the vendors who were crying nuts and gingerbread.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
He was testing the chicken of a new vendor; so far it tasted the same and cost ten percent less.
Gish Jen -- Typical American
They would be poking fun at the vendors with their damp, rosy faces, fanning themselves beneath the canopies of their booths.
Marissa Meyer -- Cinder
In the morning I woke up early and packed all my belongings into a bunch of cheap nylon bags I had bought from a street vendor a few days before.
Jack Gantos -- Hole in My Life
The vendor looked at me, puzzled, as though he did not wish to unload such a baggage on the generous white man.
John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me
A jingling music starts up and the air around her surges with the ricocheting voices of vendors hawking toasted corn and toy rockets.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban

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