Meaning of CONSIGNMENT
| Pronunciation: | | kun'sInmunt
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- [n] the delivery of goods for sale or disposal
- [n] the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
- [n] goods carried by a large vehicle
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| | Synonyms: | | cargo, commitment, committal, freight, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment |
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| | See Also: | | bringing, confinement, delivery, merchandise, product, wares | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Con*sign"ment\, n.
1. The act of consigning; consignation.
2. (Com.) The act of consigning or sending property to an
agent or correspondent in another place, as for care,
sale, etc.
3. (Com.) That which is consigned; the goods or commodities
sent or addressed to a consignee at one time or by one
conveyance.
To increase your consignments of this valuable
branch of national commerce. --Burke.
4. The writing by which anything is consigned.
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| | Related Terms: | | abalienation, agency, agentship, alienation, amortization, amortizement, assignation, assignment, authority, authorization, baggage, bargain and sale, barter, bequeathal, brevet, care, cargo, cession, charge, commendation, commission, commissioning, commitment, committal, conferment, conferral, consignation, conveyance, conveyancing, cure, deeding, delegated authority, delegation, deliverance, delivery, demise, deputation, devolution, devolvement, disposal, disposition, embassy, empowerment, enfeoffment, entrusting, entrustment, errand, exchange, executorship, exequatur, factorship, freight, freightage, full power, giving, goods, impedimenta, infeodation, infeudation, jurisdiction, lading, lease and release, legation, license, lieutenancy, load, luggage, mandate, mission, mittimus, office, pack, payload, plenipotentiary power, power of attorney, power to act, procuration, proxy, purview, recommitment, regency, regentship, relegation, remand, remanding, responsibility, sale, settlement, settling, shipment, surrender, task, trading, transfer, transference, transmission, transmittal, trust, trusteeship, vesting, vicarious authority, warrant |
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