VEND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vend mean? 

• VEND (verb)
  The verb VEND has 1 sense:

1. sell or offer for sale from place to place

  Familiarity information: VEND used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VEND (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they vend    ... he / she / it vends   
Past simple: vended   
Past participle: vended   
-ing form: vending   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sell or offer for sale from place to place

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

hawk; huckster; monger; peddle; pitch; vend

Hypernyms (to "vend" is one way to...):

deal; sell; trade (do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

vendable (fit to be offered for sale)

vender (someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money)

vendible (fit to be offered for sale)

vending; vendition (the act of selling goods for a living)

vendor (someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money)

 Context examples 

The four people who got the sham stimulation during both visits consumed the same number of calories from the vending machines on each visit and did not lose weight.

(Brain stimulation limits calories consumed in adults with obesity, NIH)

And as it was tyranny in any government to require the first, so it was weakness not to enforce the second: for a man may be allowed to keep poisons in his closet, but not to vend them about for cordials.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She had a turn for traffic, and a marked propensity for saving; shown not only in the vending of eggs and chickens, but also in driving hard bargains with the gardener about flower-roots, seeds, and slips of plants; that functionary having orders from Mrs. Reed to buy of his young lady all the products of her parterre she wished to sell: and Eliza would have sold the hair off her head if she could have made a handsome profit thereby.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Participants then ate and drank as much as they wanted from computerized vending machines.

(Brain stimulation limits calories consumed in adults with obesity, NIH)