1. offer (small items) for sale, either from a stall or from a slot machine: "there was a man vending sticky cakes and ices"
▪ sell (something):"the company makes and vends environmentally friendly beauty products"
Word Originearly 17th century (in the sense ‘be sold’): from French vendre or Latin vendere ‘sell’, from venum ‘something for sale’ + a variant of dare ‘give’.
