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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
consignee
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 Rule 3 imputes the status of agent for the consignee to the shipper-consignor.
▪ Such a right instilled trust in the written statements by carriers and encouraged consignees to deal with distant and unknown sellers.
▪ The consignee is then able to sue the carrier directly, but is also subject to the latter's direct suit.
▪ The issuance of multiple copies was thus intended to assure that the consignee received at least one.
▪ The matter had come to light when the consignees in New York reported to London that the diamonds were overdue.
▪ The protection given by the Harter Act to shippers and consignees benefited banks and secured creditors.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consignee

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, and the person to whom it is addressed, by bill of lading or otherwise.
--De Colange.

Wiktionary
consignee

n. The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered.

WordNet
consignee

n. the person to whom merchandise is delivered over

Wikipedia
Consignee

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 service, the sender is the consignor, the recipient is the consignee, and the deliverer is the carrier.

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.