VENDING MACHINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vending machine mean? 

• VENDING MACHINE (noun)
  The noun VENDING MACHINE has 1 sense:

1. a slot machine for selling goods

  Familiarity information: VENDING MACHINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VENDING MACHINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A slot machine for selling goods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("vending machine" is a kind of...):

coin machine; slot machine (a machine that is operated by the insertion of a coin in a slot)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vending machine"):

automat (a vending machine from which you can get food)

 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)

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

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