vend
verb/vend/
/vend/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they vend | /vend/ /vend/ |
| he / she / it vends | /vendz/ /vendz/ |
| past simple vended | /ˈvendɪd/ /ˈvendɪd/ |
| past participle vended | /ˈvendɪd/ /ˈvendɪd/ |
| -ing form vending | /ˈvendɪŋ/ /ˈvendɪŋ/ |
- vend something to sell somethingWord Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘be sold’): from French vendre or Latin vendere ‘sell’, from venum ‘something for sale’ + a variant of dare ‘give’.
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