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Vendor
In a supply chain, a vendor, or a seller, is an enterprise that contributes goods or services. Generally, a supply chain vendor manufactures inventory/stock items and sells them to the next link in the chain. Today, these terms refer to a supplier of any good or service.
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Contractor (noun)
A person or company that builds or improves buildings.
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Contractor (noun)
A person or company that performs specific tasks like electrical or plumbing work in construction projects.
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Contractor (noun)
A person or company hired to maintain existing facilities like air conditioning systems, groundskeeping, etc.
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Contractor (noun)
A person hired to do a job on a business contract, as opposed to a permanent employee.
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Vendor (noun)
A person or a company that vends or sells.
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Vendor (noun)
A vending machine.
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Vendor (verb)
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.”
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Vendor (verb)
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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Contractor (noun)
a person or firm that undertakes a contract to provide materials or labour to perform a service or do a job
“the school meals service is provided by private contractors”
“building contractors”
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Vendor (noun)
a person or company offering something for sale, especially a trader in the street
“an Italian ice-cream vendor”
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Vendor (noun)
the seller in a sale, especially of property.