vendor

vendor — noun

1. a person or company that sells goods, services, or property — for example, someo

1.名詞B1
釋義

a person or company that sells goods, services, or property — for example, someone selling fruit at a market stall, a firm selling software to businesses, or a homeowner selling their house to a buyer.

例句

A food vendor at the night market sold Shanti a bowl of spicy noodle soup.

collocation: 'food vendor' for sellers of prepared food

Diya bought a bunch of sunflowers from a street vendor outside the train station.

collocation: 'street vendor' for public, open-air sellers

同義詞
  • seller

    general term; less specific to formal/commercial contexts

  • supplier

    focuses on providing goods regularly to businesses rather than selling to end customers

  • merchant

    more formal; often implies a shop or established business, not a temporary stall

  • retailer

    specifically a business that sells to the general public, not an individual street seller

反義詞
  • buyer

    the person or organisation that purchases from the vendor

  • customer

    the person who buys goods or services from the vendor

用法筆記

Vendor can refer to individual sellers (a street vendor, a market vendor) and to companies (a software vendor, an authorised vendor). In British English, vendor is the standard term for the person selling a house or apartment in a property transaction.

常見錯誤

❌I bought vegetables from a street seller.
✅I bought vegetables from a street vendor.
💡Both are grammatically correct, but 'street vendor' is the natural collocation in English for open-air sellers.