vendor (or supplier)

nouncandidate·updated Aug 30, 2026

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An individual or business (and its employees) that is engaged to provide goods or services to the entity. Depending on the services provided (for example, if the vendor operates certain controls on behalf of the entity that are necessary to achieve the entity's objectives), it also might be a service provider.

MWETSP Section 100

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Organization85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

surface forms

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