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vender

/ˈvɛndər/
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Other forms: venders

Definitions of vender
  1. noun
    someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money
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    types:
    booking clerk, ticket agent
    someone who sells tickets (e.g., theater seats or travel accommodations)
    cosmetician
    someone who sells or applies cosmetics
    flower girl
    a woman who sells flowers in the street
    fruiterer
    a person who sells fruit
    cheap-jack, huckster
    a seller of shoddy goods
    hawker, packman, peddler, pedlar, pitchman
    someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals)
    selling agent
    someone who sells goods (on commission) for others
    dealer
    a seller of illicit goods
    underseller
    a seller that sells at a lower price than others do
    chapman
    archaic term for an itinerant peddler
    cheapjack
    a peddler of inferior goods
    crier
    a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells
    muffin man
    formerly an itinerant peddler of muffins
    drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, peddler, pusher
    an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs
    sandboy
    a young peddler of sand; used now only to express great happiness in `happy as a sandboy'
    transmigrante
    a Latin American who buys used goods in the United States and takes them to Latin America to sell
    type of:
    merchandiser, merchant
    a businessperson engaged in retail trade
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