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.
Contractor (noun)
A person or company that builds or improves buildings.
Contractor (noun)
A person or company that performs specific tasks like electrical or plumbing work in construction projects.
Contractor (noun)
A person or company hired to maintain existing facilities like air conditioning systems, groundskeeping, etc.
Contractor (noun)
A person hired to do a job on a business contract, as opposed to a permanent employee.
Vendor (noun)
A person or a company that vends or sells.
Vendor (noun)
A vending machine.
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.”
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.”
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”
Vendor (noun)
a person or company offering something for sale, especially a trader in the street
“an Italian ice-cream vendor”
Vendor (noun)
the seller in a sale, especially of property.