Meaning

3 senses
  1. The act of vending or selling; a sale.

    Vertrieb

  2. (Australia, UK, dated)The total sales of coal from a colliery.

  3. The letter Ꝩ/ꝩ, used in Old Norse, related to the rune wynn (ᚹ, whence also Latin-script Ƿ/ƿ) but with the bowl open at the top, like a y.

Examples

72 sentences
  1. The vending machines are over there.

    ruАвтоматы вон там.

    deDie Verkaufsautomaten befinden sich dort drüben.

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  2. This vending machine is out of order.

    ruЭтот автомат не работает.

    deDer Automat ist außer Betrieb.

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  3. Tom was looking for a vending machine.

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  4. That vending machine is out of order.

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  5. Tom is looking for a vending machine.

    ruТом ищет торговый автомат.

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Translations

5 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
sale:

Origin

17th century, likely a backformation from earlier vendible, vendee, vendor inspired by the

17th century, likely a backformation from earlier vendible, vendee, vendor inspired by the underlying French vendre, from Old French vendre, from Latin vendere, from vēnum dāre (“to give (something for) sale”).

Borrowed from Old Norse vend. Compare wynn.

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Forms

plural: vends
Singularvend
Pluralvends

regular

Collocations

4 patterns
  • vending machine
  • a vending machine
  • the vending machine
  • vending machine is

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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