Purchaser vs. Vendor

Purchaser vs. Vendor — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Purchaser and Vendor

Purchasernoun

One who purchases.

Vendornoun

A person or a company that vends or sells.

Purchasernoun

a person who buys

Vendornoun

A vending machine.

Vendorverb

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.

Vendorverb

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.
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Vendornoun

someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money