vend
pronunciation
How to pronounce vend in British English:
UK [vend]
How to pronounce vend in American English:
US [vend]
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- Verb:
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
Word Origin
- vend
- vend: [17] Latin vēndere meant ‘sell’: it was a compound verb formed from vēnum ‘sale’ (source of English venal ‘corrupt, bribable’ [17]) and dare ‘give’ (source of English data). English acquired the word via French vendre, but it was preceded into the language by the derivative vendor [16].=> data, date, donate, venal
- vend (v.)
- 1620s, from Latin vendere "to sell, give for a bribe; praise, cry up," contraction of venumdare "offer for sale," from venum "for sale" (see venal) + dare "to give" (see date (n.1)). Related: Vended; vending; vendible (early 14c.). Vending machine is recorded from 1889.
Example
- 1. Do you vend magazines here ?
- 2. I can 't vend aw , let alone paint a masterpiece .
- 3. The [ punjab ] tobacco vend act , 1958 .
- 4. Golden years of the great famine of years , people have men and women who vend .