vend

(vĕnd)

v. vend·ed, vend·ing, vends

v.tr.

1. To offer for sale, especially by peddling.

2. To supply (a product or service) to a business for a fee.

v.intr.

To engage in selling.

[Latin vēndere, shortening of vēnumdare : vēnum, sale; see wes- in Indo-European roots + dare, to give; see dō- in Indo-European roots.]

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vend

(vɛnd)

1. (Commerce) to sell or be sold

2. (Commerce) to sell (goods) for a living

3. (tr) rare to utter or publish (an opinion, etc)

[C17: from Latin vendere, contraction of vēnum dare to offer for sale]

vendition n

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vend

(vɛnd)
v.t.

1. to sell as one's occupation, esp. by peddling: to vend flowers at a sidewalk stand.

2. to give utterance to (opinions, ideas, etc.); publish.

v.i.

3. to engage in selling merchandise.

4. to be sold.

[1610–20; < Latin vendere to sell, contraction of vēnum (or vēnō) dare to offer for sale]

vend

Past participle: vended
Gerund: vending

Imperative
vend
vend

Present
I vend
you vend
he/she/it vends
we vend
you vend
they vend

Preterite
I vended
you vended
he/she/it vended
we vended
you vended
they vended

Present Continuous
I am vending
you are vending
he/she/it is vending
we are vending
you are vending
they are vending

Present Perfect
I have vended
you have vended
he/she/it has vended
we have vended
you have vended
they have vended

Past Continuous
I was vending
you were vending
he/she/it was vending
we were vending
you were vending
they were vending

Past Perfect
I had vended
you had vended
he/she/it had vended
we had vended
you had vended
they had vended

Future
I will vend
you will vend
he/she/it will vend
we will vend
you will vend
they will vend

Future Perfect
I will have vended
you will have vended
he/she/it will have vended
we will have vended
you will have vended
they will have vended

Future Continuous
I will be vending
you will be vending
he/she/it will be vending
we will be vending
you will be vending
they will be vending

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been vending
you have been vending
he/she/it has been vending
we have been vending
you have been vending
they have been vending

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been vending
you will have been vending
he/she/it will have been vending
we will have been vending
you will have been vending
they will have been vending

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been vending
you had been vending
he/she/it had been vending
we had been vending
you had been vending
they had been vending

Conditional
I would vend
you would vend
he/she/it would vend
we would vend
you would vend
they would vend

Past Conditional
I would have vended
you would have vended
he/she/it would have vended
we would have vended
you would have vended
they would have vended

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Verb

vend - sell or offer for sale from place to place

hawk, huckster, monger, peddle, pitch

sell, trade, deal - do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood; "She deals in gold"; "The brothers sell shoes"

vend

verb

1. To offer for sale:

deal (in), handle, market, merchandise, merchant, peddle, retail, sell, trade (in).

2. To travel about selling goods:

hawk, huckster, peddle.

Translations

verkaufen

vender

vendre

vend

[vend] VT → vender

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vend

vt → verkaufen

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Billington, and dance like Hillisberg or Parisot; and embroider beautifully; and spell as well as a Dixonary itself; but she had such a kindly, smiling, tender, gentle, generous heart of her own, as won the love of everybody who came near her, from Minerva herself down to the poor girl in the scullery, and the one-eyed tart-woman's daughter, who was permitted to vend her wares once a week to the young ladies in the Mall.

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And as it was tyranny in any government to require the first, so it was weakness not to enforce the second: for a man may be allowed to keep poisons in his closet, but not to vend them about for cordials."

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This was an antic fellow, half pedlar and half mountebank, who travelled about the country on foot to vend hones, stops, razors, washballs, harness-paste, medicine for dogs and horses, cheap perfumery, cosmetics, and such-like wares, which he carried in a case slung to his back.

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That the landlord was a man of money- making turn was sufficiently testified by the fact of a small bulkhead beneath the tap-room window, in size and shape not unlike a sedan-chair, being underlet to a mender of shoes: and that he was a being of a philanthropic mind was evident from the protection he afforded to a pieman, who vended his delicacies without fear of interruption, on the very door-step.

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