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The middleman who turns your need into someone else's invoice, smiling the whole time.
means A person or company that sells goods or services, especially one supplying a business or operating a stall.
from From Anglo-French and Latin vendere, 'to sell,' itself a contraction of venum dare — literally 'to give for sale,' where venum meant 'a thing for sale.' English borrowed it through the language of law and commerce, where a 'vendor' was formally the party selling, paired with the 'vendee' who bought. From courtroom contracts it spread outward to anyone hawking goods, from street carts to software firms.
latin rootsFrom vendere, Latin for to sell
lock-inVendor lock-in makes switching painfully expensive on purpose
street kingsMexico City has tens of thousands of street vendors
oldest gigMarket vendors predate written money and currency