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You can picture the person standing on the selling side of a deal — behind the cart, behind the counter, behind the signature. The word names a position, not a personality: whoever is handing the goods over and taking the money is the vendor. That position can be filled by one man with a tray of mangoes or by a company on a contract, which is why the word stretches from a street stall to a .
可以想成一筆交易裡站在「賣的那一邊」的人——推車後面的、櫃檯後面的、合約簽名欄後面的。這個字指的是一個位置，不是一種…更多收起
可以想成一筆交易裡站在「賣的那一邊」的人——推車後面的、櫃檯後面的、合約簽名欄後面的。這個字指的是一個位置，不是一種人：誰把東西交出去、收下錢，誰就是 vendor。這個位置可以由一個推著芒果攤的人來坐，也可以由合約上的一家公司來坐，所以同一個字可以從路邊攤一路用到會議室。原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
vendornoun/ˈvɛn.də/
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A person or a company that vends or sells.
- […] 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.
- 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.
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A vending machine.
- She left her duties guarding the cola vendor and brushed past Earl to the aisle with the creamed corn.
vendorverb/ˈvɛn.də/
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computingengineeringmathematicsTo bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one's own program.
- I distributed my application with a vendored copy of Perl so that it wouldn't use the system copies of Perl where it is installed.
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computingengineeringmathematicsAs the software vendor, to bundle one's own, possibly modified version of dependencies with a standard program.
- Strawberry Perl contains vendored copies of some CPAN modules, designed to allow them to run on Windows.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。