Merchant vs. Vendor — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Merchant and Vendor
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Definitions
Merchant
A merchant is a person who trades in commodities produced by other people, especially one who trades with foreign countries. Historically, a merchant is anyone who is involved in business or trade.
Vendor
In a supply chain, a vendor, or a seller, is an enterprise that contributes goods or services. Generally, a supply chain vendor manufactures inventory/stock items and sells them to the next link in the chain.
Merchant
A person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries or supplying goods to a particular trade
A builders' merchant
A tea merchant
Vendor
A person or company offering something for sale, especially a trader in the street
An Italian ice-cream vendor
Merchant
A person who has a liking for a particular activity
His driver was no speed merchant
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Vendor
One that sells or vends something
A street vendor.
A vendor of software products on the Web.
Merchant
(in historical contexts) relating to merchants or commerce
The growth of the merchant classes
Vendor
One that provides products or services to a business for a fee.
Merchant
One whose occupation is the wholesale purchase and retail sale of goods for profit.
Vendor
A vending machine.
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Merchant
One who runs a retail business; a shopkeeper.
Vendor
A person or a company that vends or sells.
Merchant
Of or relating to merchants, merchandise, or commercial trade
A merchant guild.
Vendor
A vending machine.
Merchant
Of or relating to the merchant marine
Merchant ships.
Vendor
To bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one's own program.
I distributed my application with a vendored copy of Perl so that it wouldn't use the system copies of Perl where it is installed.
Merchant
A person who traffics in commodities for profit.
Vendor
As the software vendor, to bundle one's own, possibly modified version of dependencies with a standard program.
Strawberry Perl contains vendored copies of some CPAN modules, designed to allow them to run on Windows.
Merchant
The owner or operator of a retail business.
Vendor
A vender; a seller; the correlative of vendee.
Merchant
A trading vessel; a merchantman.
Vendor
Someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money
Merchant
Someone who is noted for a stated type of activity or behaviour.
He's some kind of speed merchant — he drives way too fast.
Goal merchant Smith scored twice again in the match against Mudchester Rovers.
Merchant
(obsolete) A supercargo.
Merchant
As a resident of a region, to buy goods from a non-resident and sell them to another non-resident.
A merchanting service
Merchant
One who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader.
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad.
Merchant
A trading vessel; a merchantman.
Merchant
One who keeps a store or shop for the sale of goods; a shopkeeper.
Merchant
Of, pertaining to, or employed in, trade or merchandise; as, the merchant service.
Merchant
To be a merchant; to trade.
Merchant
A businessperson engaged in retail trade
