vending machine

noun

: a coin-operated machine for selling merchandise

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The day of the show, thirty-three models, each bearing or wearing their runway outfit, reported for hair and makeup to a third-floor room with vending machines in it. Henry Alford, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025 Still, when he and Usagi cross paths at a vending machine, something draws them together. Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Sep. 2025 In the lobby of the Anthropic event, the company proudly displayed a vending machine called Project Vend, which is run entirely by Claude, serving as an experiment into whether AI can operate like independent entrepreneurs in the real world. Andrew R. Chow, Time, 16 Sep. 2025 In order to sell tobacco, the bar must generate at least 15% of its income from the sale of cigars or pipe tobacco, which cannot come from a vending machine. Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for vending machine

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1895, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of vending machine was circa 1895

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“Vending machine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vending%20machine. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.

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vending machine

noun
: a machine from which one may get merchandise after putting in coins

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