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The person to whom merchandise is delivered over
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consignee
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In a contract of carriage , the consignee is the entity who is financially responsible (the buyer) for the receipt of a shipment . Generally, but not always, the consignee is the same as the receiver. If a sender dispatches an item to a receiver via a delivery ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Cooley, the consignee of two vessels leaving that port, refused to pay the fee. ▪ However, that right ceases when the second copy of the consignment note has been handed over to the original designated consignee . ▪ Sea Waybill ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consignee \Con`sign*ee"\ (?; 277), n. [F. consign?, p. p. of consigner.] The person to whom goods or other things are consigned; a factor; -- correlative to consignor. Consigner and consignee are used by merchants to express generally the shipper of merchandise, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the person to whom merchandise is delivered over
Usage examples of consignee.
Harker has got the letters between the consignee of the boxes at Whitby and the carriers in London who took charge of them.
Anterior to their arrival, meetings had been held and mobs raised, to terrify the consignees into an engagement not to receive the tea, and when they arrived, another meeting of the inhabitants of Boston and all the neighbouring towns was called to prevent its being landed.
Can it be stipulated that the majority of inhabitants of Earth's major satellite are not undischarged consignees but free individuals?
Can it be stipulated that the majority of inhabitants of Earth’s major satellite are not undischarged consignees but free individuals?
They feared that he was going to lose his temper when told of the engineer's cargo pillaging, but he only remarked, in a dry voice, "I guess that the consignees can afford to compensate us for our time and trouble.
But if the Captain had decided that the laborer was worthy of his hire, with the consignees of the cargo making their contribution toward that hire, that was his privilege .
They would hence, so far as possible, naturally keep together and would discharge their cargoes and have their accountings to a single consignee, taken as nearly together as practicable.
He promised Dupree to get from Langarotti the name and address of a consignee agent in Marseilles within the next forty-eight hours.
All receipts of this auction are to be entered as excise duties paid by the consignee on said merchandise, said receipts to constitute I payment in full on excise on Consignment 97-W.