a person or company offering something for sale, especially a trader in the street
a person who sells something in the street, either from a stall or van or with their goods laid out on the sidewalk
a type of placing used as a method of financing a takeover in which the purchasing company issues its own shares as payment to the company being bought, with the prearranged agreement that these shares are then placed with investors in exchange for cash
denoting or relating to computer hardware or software products or network services from more than one supplier