What's the difference between purveyor and vender?

Purveyor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer.
  • (n.) An officer who formerly provided, or exacted provision, for the king's household.
  • (n.) a procurer; a pimp; a bawd.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The worst purveyors of hate, they’re emboldened by this election and they’re out in force.
  • (2) Here was the purveyor of nigh on a third of the nation’s food openly promising a cut that will be barely noticed over time by consumers but will have a positive health impact.
  • (3) He even has a soft spot for the Cockney Rejects, pugnacious purveyors of football singalongs.
  • (4) But in and among the general approval, there was the odd titter that such a well-established prize should find itself being backed by a purveyor of sticky drinks.
  • (5) But his core supporters have remained faithful, choosing to believe that the mainstream media are purveyors of fake news, rather than accept that the Trump presidency has not been the unrivalled success the president has claimed.
  • (6) Earlier this year we wrote about Gnod , Salford's finest purveyors of ambient sludge, prog-metal and murky motorik psych-drone space-rock.
  • (7) Instead, the least attractive aspects of London 2012, the ZiL lanes and the Visa-only policy and McDonald's and Coca-Cola as purveyors of sustenance to a sporting nation, were smothered not only by the competition but by the ocean of good humour fostered by the joviality of the volunteers, the inspirational architecture and the attention given to the natural landscape (with apologies to those who had to move to make room for it all).
  • (8) Josie Long Watching Josie Long evolve from purveyor of childlike whimsy to political agitator has been one of the pleasures of the last few festivals.
  • (9) One side of each carcass was fabricated using National Association of Meat Purveyors specifications.
  • (10) Phosphorus is also an energy purveyor during numerous biologic reactions, and depp deprivation may lead to a lot of pathologic situations, sometimes severe.
  • (11) It certainly looks over the top to me.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest “I would have loosened my grip.” Photograph: Screenshot via FoxNews.com Even Bill O’Reilly, the reliable hardass and purveyor of murderous ideation , seemed off his game.
  • (12) One rebuke to purveyors of a failing conventional wisdom, which may have been refined in the retelling , was "When the facts change, I change my mind.
  • (13) For Greeks, the IMF has a reputation as a merciless purveyor of fiscal delinquents, more usually associated with Latin America and other developing economies.
  • (14) The Beatles are now regularly credited with making pop acceptable, elevating it from the realms of teenage delinquency, and forcing critics in the Sunday papers to consider pop stars as thinkers, not just purveyors of teenage noise.
  • (15) But these platforms are by no means merely the purveyors of Smith’s invisible hand.
  • (16) But just as Oliver Stone has managed to make a boring sequel to Wall Street, despite the real Wall Street's enthralling and nigh-on-cinematic recent wickedness (the inner Freudian torment of boring Shia LaBoeuf's boring character is apparently more interesting to Stone – once the great purveyor of conspiracy theories – than the near-collapse of capitalism), so the makers of the upcoming films about Facebook have missed an obvious trick with their movies.
  • (17) There is a certain duty that comes with being the anointed purveyor of truth.
  • (18) This study reports on the value of head injury instruction cards as purveyors of information to patients.
  • (19) Liverpool also want Aston Villa's purveyor of wayward crosses Ashley Young and will obviously need a muscular, ponytail-sporting Geordie to get on the end of them; step forward £30m-rated Newcastle United No9 Andy Carroll .
  • (20) ) I would rather drink Bud (another St Louis product) than chomp on antacids.... looks like I need to hit the fridge for suds St Louis, purveyor of beer, ribs and Rolaids.

Vender


Definition:

  • (n.) One who vends; one who transfers the exclusive right of possessing a thing, either his own, or that of another as his agent, for a price or pecuniary equivalent; a seller; a vendor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "It's a ridiculous, stupid law," says David Parry, vender of all kinds of household goods – pots of paint, rope, cigarette lighters.
  • (2) Patient services issues in HHC involve the ethics of providing high-technology feeding therapies to terminally ill patients and the controversies surrounding drug products, such as the appropriate amount of drug to be dispensed, the appropriate individual to compound home-care drug products, acceptable types of product packaging, and the impact of a switch in venders on the drug products supplied to patients.
  • (3) Because of careful planning, the cooperation of all pharmacy staff members, and frequent assistance from the computer vender, the nine-month conversion to a computerized system proceeded smoothly.
  • (4) The department developed a request for proposal and contracted with a vender for a system that would support unit dose drug distribution and i.v.
  • (5) Vender, Joyce (Indiana University, Bloomington), Kunthala Jayaraman, and H. V. Rickenberg.