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Provider vs. Vendor — What's the Difference?

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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