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Consignment   /kənsˈaɪnmənt/   Listen
Consignment

noun
1.
Goods carried by a large vehicle.  Synonyms: cargo, freight, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment.
2.
The official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital).  Synonyms: commitment, committal.
3.
The delivery of goods for sale or disposal.





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"Consignment" Quotes from Famous Books



... to worry the reader with those entries in the book referring to events already related. Our record will begin on the day of the captain's consignment to the deep, after which era I made ...
— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 - Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales • Ambrose Bierce
... the energy and the taste and invention of Thornberry that had given them their reputation, and secured them extensive markets. He had worked with borrowed capital, but had paid off his debt, and his establishment was now his own; but, stimulated by his success, he had made a consignment of large amount to the United States, where it arrived only to be welcomed by what ...
— Endymion • Benjamin Disraeli
... everlasting hell; a Power whose dominion overshadows and belittles the pomps and shows of a village. To be abandoned by one's King—yes, that is death, and death is much; but to be abandoned by Rome, to be abandoned by the Church! Ah, death is nothing to that, for that is consignment to endless life—and such ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... agent at the point of shipment to send a copy of the bill of lading to the agent where the goods are received. In this way he can compare the consignment ...
— Business Hints for Men and Women • Alfred Rochefort Calhoun
... the pleasure of seeing those fellows sitting on their haunches in Sam-riek, waiting for you to unload your cargo into their lap, while I shall be travelling another way, under a heavy press of canvas, conveying the consignment on its way to ...
— A Chinese Command - A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas • Harry Collingwood


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