vend
/vɛnd
/verb [with object]
1Offer (small items) for sale, either from a stall or from a slot machine: there was a man vending sticky cakes and ices...
- It's probably well known by now that Japan is the empire of vending machines, vending just about anything that can be vended.
- All flavors are available in bulk bags for retail sales, while eight come in prepacks for vending.
- Occupations among the poorer classes involved mainly domestic work but also included street vending, or small retail commerce in foodstuffs, coal or fish.
1.1 Law or formal Sell (something): the company makes and vends environmentally friendly beauty products...
- The store vends an array of offensive and defensive equipment such as armor, weapons and ammunition.
- The company vends dairy products, bacon, eggs and spring water.
- Inside and outside ballparks and arenas, there are always people vending programs.
Derivatives
vendible
- Like manufacturers, however, they generally add value to vendible commodities.
Origin
Early 17th century (in the sense 'be sold'): from French vendre or Latin vendere 'sell', from venum 'something for sale' + a variant of dare 'give'.
Rhymes
- smoodger
- smooge
- smoor
- smoosh
- Smoot, George
- smooth
- smoothable
- phytomitogen
- phytomonad
- phyton
- phytonutrient
- phytopalaeontologist
- phytopalaeontology
- phytopaleontology
- phytopathogen
- phytopathogenic
- phytopathogenicity
- phytopathological
- phytopathologist
- phytopathology
- phytophagan
- phytophagic
- phytophagous
- phytophagy
- phytopharmacology