What's the difference between shopkeeper and vendor?

Shopkeeper


Definition:

  • (n.) A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Everyone had something to say about the events, from professors to shopkeepers.
  • (2) Photograph: Peter Beaumont for the Guardian For his part the leader of Hadash, the veteran socialist party in Israel that emphasises Arab-Jewish cooperation, Odeh has now attracted a political star status most obvious on the stump in Lod on Wednesday in the repeated cries of “Ayman!” by shopkeepers and passersby keen to shake his hand or be photographed with him.
  • (3) "There were 85 others in my police cell, mostly young people," said the young shopkeeper held in police station No 14.
  • (4) "Some people pulled me out from the rubble," said shopkeeper Sharifuddin Aurfan, who was wounded.
  • (5) Shopkeepers said they were afraid to open after gunmen believed to be working for the Knights Templar cartel threw firebombs at several of the city's businesses and city hall over the weekend.
  • (6) The scale of the destruction in Birmingham, Manchester and Salford shocked morning commuters and prompted shopkeepers fearful of a repeat performance to board up premises at lunchtime.
  • (7) Small shopkeepers have called on the government to include them in plans to introduce a mandatory 5p charge on plastic carrier bags next year.
  • (8) Photograph: tom phillips for the Guardian “It’s not been good for us,” complained Wu Yuhua, a 42-year-old shopkeeper from Jiangxi province who was preparing to leave the city until the G20 roadshow had moved on.
  • (9) The tourists ambling down Ledra Street in the hot midday sun are a welcome sight – and not just for crisis-hit Cyprus's shopkeepers.
  • (10) Hundreds of shopkeepers and restaurant owners from Calais held a protest in Paris on 7 March to complain that they have suffered heavy losses as a result of the presence of migrants in the port.
  • (11) James Agate (1877‑1947) started out as a Manchester cotton merchant, moved to London as a shopkeeper, then rose to prominence as the most brilliant theatre critic of his day.
  • (12) She rather loved being a shopkeeper, perhaps because it gave her a rest from writing.
  • (13) It’s been a long time since I saw him last.” The shopkeeper, 79, said no one had been in the barbershop since at least Tuesday and it had now closed.
  • (14) "A toxic mix of gold, greed and alcohol has resulted in a spate of brutal murders in the interior," the newspaper reported, cataloguing killings involving miners, jewellers and shopkeepers working at the gold mines.
  • (15) Shopkeepers have placed oil drums on the pavement to try to put some distance between themselves and any blast.
  • (16) And, as every shopkeeper will tell you, a huge sector of our economy depends on this.
  • (17) Fellow shopkeepers, she said, woke up yesterday to find their stock bobbing about in high waters.
  • (18) The UK is just as much a nation of shopkeepers as a vanguard of cutting-edge capitalism."
  • (19) Anna, a shopkeeper whose store was hit by a shell on Monday, said she did not believe the ceasefire would last.
  • (20) From the largest supermarkets to the most modest corner store or market stall, shopkeepers will be compelled to charge customers at least 5p for the convenience of taking their goods home in a disposable bag.

Vendor


Definition:

  • (n.) A vender; a seller; the correlative of vendee.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Britain's estate agents today report a surge in the number of properties for sale amid signs jittery vendors are keen to strike a deal before next month's general election.
  • (2) The solicitor did a search, they went through the parish records and local histories, they got a sworn statement from the vendors: in the 150-plus years since it was built, the farm had never flooded.
  • (3) The most basic mark of credibility for a Democratic campaign is whether it has bought access to the voter file as administered through NGP VAN , the Democratic party’s quasi-official vendor for voting information.
  • (4) Drugs, equipment and supplies are available through the hospital and contract vendors.
  • (5) It is suggested that primary responsibility for quality control be placed on the relatively few manufacturer-vendors rather than on the multiple purchaser-users, who may not possess either the expertise or the resources for quality control programs.
  • (6) Because fused silica columns with immobilized stationary phases of varying polarities are offered by numerous vendors of chromatographic equipment, they have become widely used for many analytical tasks.
  • (7) However, enzymatic kits for free glycerol analysis obtained from different vendors have, on occasion, provided different results for a given sample.
  • (8) "We've got no more food and no more house, so leaving is the only thing to do," Livena Livel, a 22-year-old street vendor, told Associated Press.
  • (9) There is still plenty vendors can do to make sure their property stands out in the online "beauty parade", says John Durrant, a former estate agent turned professional photographer, whose website www.doctor-photo.co.uk will improve photographs of your home for just £3 a shot.
  • (10) Street vendors and shoppers also appear to have been targeted in an attack in central Baghdad just hours later.
  • (11) I looked on the UK cannabis forum, which had 30,000 postings, and a vendor called JesusOfRave was recommended.
  • (12) For searchers without access to a medical library or for more experienced searchers, an information vendor such as BRS, MEDIS, or DIALOG may be more appropriate.
  • (13) Germany and the Netherlands were joint third in the numbers of dealers, with 225 each, although Dutch vendors made fewer but, on average, larger transactions and operated in a far smaller jurisdiction.
  • (14) On 2 August Fayaz Rah, a 39-year-old fruit vendor from Batamaloo, had lunch with his wife and three children.
  • (15) Inside, vendors sold balloons, candyfloss and posters of Sisi with Nasser, Sisi with a roaring lion, Sisi with his trademark sunglasses.
  • (16) An annotated guide to database vendors is provided, and guidelines are offered that will assist the physician in selecting equipment and assessing services.
  • (17) The rationale for a statewide list and the criteria for choosing vendors are discussed.
  • (18) Where in July street vendors sold hats and T-shirts with slogans such as “Hillary for Prison” and “Life’s a bitch, don’t vote for one”, this week the merchandise says “Hard working town Cleveland”, “Land of champions”, “C*town don’t back down” and “I liked Cleveland before it was cool”.
  • (19) Pasteurella multocida was isolated from 42 of the 135 (31%) deep nasal swabs from clinically healthy conventional rabbits supplied by two vendors.
  • (20) Working with the radiology department to compile a standard list of radiopharmaceuticals and radiopaque contrast media and soliciting competitive bids by vendors of these products resulted in annual savings of more than $83,000.