Vends

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To provide and exchange goods or services for money directly to customers To supply items for sale while facilitating monetary transactions To engage in the transaction of selling various products and services to buyers
2. To offer products or services for purchase in exchange for payment
3. To present items for trade to customers in return for money

Etymology: "Vends" is the third-person singular form of "vend", so its history is that of the verb itself. The verb "vend" is a 17th-century word, most likely formed by back-formation from older English words such as "vendible", "vendee" and "vendor". Those were themselves shaped by the French verb "vendre", which came from Latin "vendere", a compound of "vēnum" (sale) and "dare" (to give). The Latin phrase thus meant something like "to give for sale", a neat literal picture of the act the word still describes. The verb was not built from its Latin ancestor alone. English also has an unrelated older source: "vend" was borrowed from Old Norse, and it is related to "wynn", the Old English rune-name for joy. That connection is a separate line of descent, though it shows how distinct the two strands are.

Synonyms: sells, distributes, offers, provides, merchandises

Antonyms: buys, purchasing