Vending

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Vend \Vend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vended}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Vending}.] [F. vendre, L. vendere, from venum dare; venus
     sale + dare to give. See 2d {Venal}, {Date}, time.]
     To transfer to another person for a pecuniary equivalent; to
     make an object of trade; to dispose of by sale; to sell; as,
     to vend goods; to vend vegetables.


     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: Vend differs from barter. We vend for money; we barter
           for commodities. Vend is used chiefly of wares,
           merchandise, or other small articles, not of lands and
           tenements.
           [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  vending
       n : the act of selling goods for a living [syn: {peddling}, {hawking},
            {vendition}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "vending":
     consumer preference study, consumer research, consumer survey,
     direct-mail selling, hard sell, hawking,
     high-pressure salesmanship, huckstering, jobbing,
     low-pressure salesmanship, mail-order selling, market research,
     marketing, marketing research, merchandising, peddling, promotion,
     retailing, sales campaign, sales promotion, salesmanship, selling,
     sellout, soft sell, wholesaling