purchaserformal

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

a person who sells things
sellerWe'll need to talk to the seller and see if they'll accept your bid on the house.
salespersonThe shop was so busy that it took me ages to get the salesperson's attention.
salesmanHe was a used-car salesman.
saleswomanShe was the company's top saleswoman.
sales assistantUKCan you wave over a sales assistant? I have a question about this bracelet.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

People who sell things
agent
assistant
auctioneer
barker
barrow boy
florist
flower girl
franchisee
gallerist
haberdasher
record label
reseller
retailer
sales assistant
sales force
super-salesman
superseller
supplier
tout
tradesman

vendor | American Dictionary

vendor
noun[ C ]
us/ˈven·dər/
a person or company that sells goods or services:
Our company deals with many vendors of women’s clothing.
A vendor is also a person who sells food or goods on the street:
a hot dog vendor
a street vendor

vendor | Business English

vendor
noun[ C ]
(US alsovender)uk /ˈvendɔːr/us
COMMERCE
a company or person that sells a particular product:
They are the nation's leading vendor of organic dairy products.
software vendors
Street vendors sell hot dogs outside the museum.
LAW, PROPERTY
someone who is selling something, especially property:
The purchaser and vendor need to agree the details of the contract.

Examples of vendor

vendor
The expressive and regulatory function of eye gaze is particularly important at the beginning of a focused gathering between shoppers and vendors.
Humans undertake the search for products, services, potential vendors and business partners.
In a traditional shopping trip, the buyer interacts with vendors directly by visiting their shops.
We also collected 139 drinking water samples from the 149 vendors who offered drinking water to customers, and 172 dishwater samples.
A viable farmers' market must have enough farmer vendors to attract customers and it must have enough customers to be attractive to farmer vendors.
Sometimes customers give no more than a passing glance at the stalls and little attention to the vendors' promotional cries.
For instance, the very low bell sound was modulated slightly to highlight different features of a vendor's voice.
But whatever comforts an imprisoned libeller obtained for himself came at a high price, and impoverished vendors were routinely thrown in with common felons.
In service encounters the vendor and customer are involved in hierarchic dyadic interactions, in which the customer is the more powerful speaker.
What all of these locations have in common is the presence of street vendors' voices.
Because street vendors were required to form associations, the author argues that this established a historic base for political organising.
Consumers respond to vendor signals in different ways and were able to be grouped according to their attitudes towards locally produced foods.
Vendor-supplied defaults for access policy could help ensure that deployments are consistent with what is checked by developers.
However, a vendor or organization does not necessarily need sophisticated spyware to be able to track the user's moves and build profiles.
Relevant absorption costs require the assistance of vendors within the context of longterm contractual relations.
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Collocations withvendor

vendor

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commercial vendor
Because no commercial organization or agency certifies compliance, commercial vendors can create the test methods or approaches to fit their product.
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