Consignment
[kən'saɪnm(ə)nt] or [kən'saɪnmənt]
Definition
(n.) The act of consigning; consignation.
(n.) The act of consigning or sending property to an agent or correspondent in another place, as for care, sale, etc.
(n.) That which is consigned; the goods or commodities sent or addressed to a consignee at one time or by one conveyance.
(n.) The writing by which anything is consigned.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Custody, commission, delegation
ANT:Miscommitment, misconsignment
Checker: Wade
Examples
- Among the things she brought back--more as a curiosity than as an article of cargo--was a consignment of Chinese firecrackers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Giving the waiter to the personage before mentioned, as a block-head duly qualified for that consignment, Mr. Harthouse hurried into the gallery. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Paul made safe consignment of his charge at the Rue Fossette. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In time, rockets, squibs and torpedoes were included in the consignment, but it was not until the middle of the nineteenth century that their use became general in America. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The following morning the cages would be filled with a new consignment of victims, and so on throughout the ten days of the games. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
Editor: Paula