Provider vs. Vendor — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Provider and Vendor
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Provider
A person or thing that provides something
A leading provider of personal financial services
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.
Provider
One who supplies a means of subsistence
Parents who were good providers.
Vendor
A person or company offering something for sale, especially a trader in the street
An Italian ice-cream vendor
Provider
One that makes something, such as a service, available
Primary health care providers.
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Vendor
One that sells or vends something
A street vendor.
A vendor of software products on the Web.
Provider
One who, or that which, provides a service, commodity, or the means for subsistence.
Vendor
One that provides products or services to a business for a fee.
Provider
One who provides, furnishes, or supplies; one who procures what is wanted.
Vendor
A vending machine.
Provider
Someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity
Vendor
A person or a company that vends or sells.
Provider
Someone who provides the means for subsistence
Vendor
A vending machine.
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.
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.
Vendor
A vender; a seller; the correlative of vendee.
Vendor
Someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money
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