vendor

About 3.76 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A person or a company that vends or sells.
2. noun A vending machine.
3. verb To 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.

4. verb As 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.

Similar words

seller vender trafficker merchant retailer trader dealer salesman reseller salesperson

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Word family

vender venders vendors