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Synonyms for consignment

Grammar : Noun
Spell : kuh n-sahyn-muh nt
Phonetic Transcription : kənˈsaɪn mənt

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Définition of consignment

Origin :
  • 1560s, "sealing with a sign," from consign + -ment. Meaning "delivering over" is from 1660s; especially of goods, for the sake of sale or auction, from c.1700. Meaning "quantity of goods so assigned" is recorded from 1720s.
  • noun entrusting, handing over
  • noun something entrusted to another's care
Example sentences :
  • "There goes a consignment of men's lives," said Mrs. Vansittart to her companion.
  • Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman
  • He informs us that you refused to receive the consignment or to pay the charges.
  • Extract from : « "Pigs is Pigs" » by Ellis Parker Butler
  • I was down on the levee, to see to the consignment of my freight, and run afoul of her.
  • Extract from : « Eventide » by Effie Afton
  • I got a letter from Whiteley's this morning asking when my first consignment was to arrive.
  • Extract from : « Love Among the Chickens » by P. G. Wodehouse
  • To send a consignment of goods to an agent or factor for sale or disposal.
  • Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth
  • The party to whose care a ship or a consignment of goods is intrusted.
  • Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth
  • They finished the first consignment without any luck, and went to the second place.
  • Extract from : « The Cricket » by Marjorie Cooke
  • And your friend Linker could do with a consignment of French silk, duty free.
  • Extract from : « The Smuggler's Cave » by George A. Birmingham
  • A year or two later, he decided to send a consignment of them to England.
  • Extract from : « Time Telling through the Ages » by Harry Chase Brearley
  • In 1665 the transportation and feed of the consignment cost 11,200 livres.
  • Extract from : « Montreal 1535-1914 under the French Rgime » by William Henry Atherton

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