Vendor vs. Manufacturer

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.

Manufacturernoun

one that manufactures

Manufacturernoun

One who manufactures.

Manufacturernoun

a business engaged in manufacturing some product

Manufacturernoun

someone who manufactures something

Manufacturernoun

a person or company that makes goods for sale