Word Meanings - VEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To transfer to another person for a pecuniary equivalent; to make an object of trade; to dispose of by sale; to sell; as, to vend goods; to vend vegetables. Note: Vend differs from barter. We vend for money; we barter for commodities. Vend is used

Additional info about word: VEND

To transfer to another person for a pecuniary equivalent; to make an object of trade; to dispose of by sale; to sell; as, to vend goods; to vend vegetables. Note: Vend differs from barter. We vend for money; we barter for commodities. Vend is used chiefly of wares, merchandise, or other small articles, not of lands and tenements. (more info) vendre, L. vendere, from venum dare; venus sale + dare to give. See

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VEND)

• Sell
• Vend
• retail
• hawk
• dispose of

Related words: (words related to VEND)

• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• DISPOSEDNESS
  The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity.
• DISPOSED
  1. Inclined; minded. When he was disposed to pass into Achaia. Acts xviii. 27. 2. Inclined to mirth; jolly. Beau. & Fl. Well disposed, in good condition; in good health. Chaucer.
• RETAILMENT
  The act of retailing.
• RETAIL
  The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand.
• RETAILER
  One who retails anything; as, a retailer of merchandise; a retailer of gossip.
• DISPOSER
  One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower. Absolute lord and disposer of all things. Barrow.
• DISPOSE
  Etym: 1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in
• COUNTRETAILLE
  A counter tally; correspondence . At the countretaille, in return. Chaucer.
• FOREDISPOSE
  To bestow beforehand. King James had by promise foredisposed the place on the Bishop of Meath. Fuller.
• PREINDISPOSE
  To render indisposed beforehand. Milman.
• REDISPOSE
  To dispose anew or again; to readjust; to rearrange. A. Baxter.
• PREDISPOSE
  1. To dispose or incline beforehand; to give a predisposition or bias to; as, to predispose the mind to friendship. 2. To make fit or susceptible beforehand; to give a tendency to; as, debility predisposes the body to disease. Predisposing causes
• INDISPOSE
  1. To render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify. 2. To disorder slightly as regards health; to make somewhat. Shak. It made him rather indisposed than sick. Walton. 3. To disincline; to render averse or unfavorable; as, a love of pleasure indisposes
• FIRETAIL
  The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt.
• UNDISPOSEDNESS
  Indisposition; disinclination.
• INDISPOSEDNESS
  The condition or quality of being indisposed. Bp. Hall.