Contractor vs. Vendor

Contractornoun

A person or company that builds or improves buildings.

Contractornoun

A person or company that performs specific tasks like electrical or plumbing work in construction projects.

Contractornoun

A person or company hired to maintain existing facilities like air conditioning systems, groundskeeping, etc.

Contractornoun

A person hired to do a job on a business contract, as opposed to a permanent employee.

Contractornoun

One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad.

Contractornoun

someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things

Contractornoun

the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps

Contractornoun

(law) a party to a contract

Contractornoun

a bodily organ that contracts

Contractornoun

a person or firm that undertakes a contract to provide materials or labour to perform a service or do a job

Vendornoun

A person or a company that vends or sells.

Vendornoun

A vending machine.

Vendorverb

To bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one's own program.

Vendorverb

As the software vendor, to bundle one's own, possibly modified version of dependencies with a standard program.

Vendornoun

A vender; a seller; the correlative of vendee.

Vendornoun

someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money

Vendornoun

a person or company offering something for sale, especially a trader in the street

Vendornoun

the seller in a sale, especially of property.

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.