consigneen.
/kɒnsʌɪˈniː/ A person to whom goods are consigned.
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society > trade and finance > buying > buyer > [noun] > to whom goods consigned
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1789 Buller Term Rep. III. 469 There is the strongest evidence of the consignee's taking actual possession of the goods.
1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking vii. 142 A corn merchant at New York ships a cargo to London, and..draws a bill upon the consignee.
1886 Sir C. Russell in Daily News 10 Dec. 3/2 He asserted the right of the company to send consignee letters; that was, letters sent in reference to the consignment of goods.
Derivatives
consiˈgneeship n.
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1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) VI. Index 503 [A] town-meeting..invites the Hutchinsons to resign their consigneeship.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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