Vended

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To have engaged in the process of selling items, commonly using dispensers or points of sale, which often include food or other products for consumer purchase
2. To have participated in the distribution of various goods through sales methods, such as automated machines or retail environments, aimed at consumers
3. To have been involved in the act of selling goods, typically through automatic machines or in retail settings, intended for consumer acquisition

Etymology: "Vended" is the past tense of "vend", and the verb itself is a 17th-century formation that English built by trimming words it had already borrowed. Earlier English had "vendible", "vendee" and "vendor", all taken from French and Latin commercial vocabulary. Speakers worked backward from those forms, carving off the ending to produce a fresh verb meaning to sell. The deeper roots are Latin. "Vendere" was formed from "vēnum dāre", literally "to give (something) for sale", with "vēnum" meaning a sale or the thing sold. The Latin verb passed into Old French as "vendre", and that French model is what encouraged English writers to make "vend" in the first place. The word stayed firmly on the formal, commercial side of the language, which is part of why it sounds slightly official today.

Synonyms: sold, marketed, traded

Antonyms: bought, acquired, purchased