Purchaser vs. Vendor

Purchaser and Vendor Definitions
Purchaser
To obtain in exchange for money or its equivalent; buy.
Vendor
One that sells or vends something
A street vendor.
A vendor of software products on the Web.
Purchaser
To acquire by effort; earn
Purchased the victory with the loss of many lives.
Vendor
One that provides products or services to a business for a fee.
Purchaser
To pull or haul by means of a mechanical device, such as a winch.
Vendor
A vending machine.
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Purchaser
The act or an instance of buying
The sudden purchase of a car.
Vendor
A person or a company that vends or sells.
Purchaser
Something bought
That hat was a wise purchase.
Vendor
A vending machine.
Purchaser
A hold or position that allows the application of power, as in moving something
Got a purchase for her foot and climbed up.
Vendor
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.
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Purchaser
A device, such as a pulley, used to obtain mechanical advantage.
Vendor
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.
Purchaser
A means or advantage that allows the increase of power or influence.
Vendor
A vender; a seller; the correlative of vendee.
Purchaser
One who purchases.
Vendor
Someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money
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Purchaser
One who purchases; one who acquires property for a consideration, generally of money; a buyer; a vendee.
Purchaser
One who acquires an estate in lands by his own act or agreement, or who takes or obtains an estate by any means other than by descent or inheritance.
Purchaser
A person who buys