vended

Peddled for profit

Vended is the past tense of vend, meaning to sell or offer for sale.

The word appears most often in connection with machines: vended snacks, vended beverages.

A vending machine vends products automatically.

Outside this context, vend sounds formal or legalistic—lawyers speak of goods vended, while everyone else says sold.

sold

merchandise

Commercial products offered

  • goodsThings for sale
  • waresItems offered for sale
  • hawkedSold aggressively in public

peddled · marketed · retailed · traded · purveyed · distributed · supplied · inventory · stock · consigned

machine

automat

Coin-operated cafeteria

kiosk · self-service · snack · soda · candy · gumball · beverages · tickets · tokens · change

retail

shop

Retail sales venue

stall · booth · cart · stand · bazaar · market · mall · merchant · peddler · hawker

transaction

purchase

Goods obtained for payment

  • saleExchange for payment
  • exchangeMutual giving and receiving
  • barterDirect goods-for-goods exchange

trade · deal · bargain · haggle · negotiate · buyer · seller · payment · receipt · currency

Opposites
commercial transaction direction

vendedbought

Obtained through payment

purchased · acquired · procured · obtained · consumed

Phrases
Family

vendor, vend, vendors, vending, vends, venders, vendible, vender, vending machine

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G