Vendor vs. Subcontractor

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.

Subcontractornoun

A contractor hired by a general contractor employed by the contractor rather than directly hired by the customer.

Subcontractornoun

One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.

Subcontractornoun

someone who enters into a subcontract with the primary contractor

Subcontractor

A subcontractor is an individual or (in many cases) a business that signs a contract to perform part or all of the obligations of another's contract. A subcontractor (or sub-contractor) is a company or person whom a general contractor, prime contractor or main contractor hires to perform a specific task as part of an overall project and normally pays for services provided to the project.