Crossword clues for consignment
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consignment \Con*sign"ment\, n.
The act of consigning; consignation.
(Com.) The act of consigning or sending property to an agent or correspondent in another place, as for care, sale, etc.
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(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. The writing by which anything is consigned.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "sealing with a sign," from consign + -ment. Meaning "delivering over" is from 1660s; especially of goods, for the sake of sale or auction, from c.1700. Meaning "quantity of goods so assigned" is recorded from 1720s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A collection of goods to be sent, in transit or having been sent 2 The act of consigning
WordNet
Wikipedia
Consignment is the act of consigning, the act of giving over to another person or agent's charge, custody or care any material or goods but retaining legal ownership until the material or goods are sold. That may be done for the purpose of shipping the goods, transferring the goods to auction or intending the goods to be placed on sale in a store (a consignment store).
The verb "consign" means "to send" and therefore the noun "consignment" means "sending goods to another person". In the case of "retail consignment" or "sales consignment" (often just referred to as a "consignment"), goods are sent to the agent for the purpose of sale. The ownership of these goods remains with the sender. The agent sells the goods on behalf of the sender according to instructions. The sender of goods is known as the "consignor" and the agent entrusted with the custody and care of the goods is known as the "consignee".
Consignment is the fifth mixtape released by rap artist Jadakiss. It was released on April 27, 2012. The mixtape has been downloaded over 1 million times on DatPiff, certifying it double platinum. The mixtape features guest appearances from Wale, French Montana, Styles P, Meek Mill, Yung Joc, Fabolous, Lloyd Banks, Young Jeezy, Yo Gotti, Ace Hood, Waka Flocka Flame, Slim Dunkin, 2 Chainz, Emanny, Cito, Goldie, Swerv, Future, Gucci Mane, Sheek Louch and Trae Tha Truth.
Usage examples of "consignment".
We have already promised a consignment, but the moment Turkey agrees secretly with the plan above far greater quantities must be sent.
When Ajo brought the new consignment of wounded to the ship the doctors and nurses found themselves pretty busy for a time.
At the same time, consignment and mail-order houses appeared in Canada for the first time, buying and selling furs on commission, allowing competitors quick and simple entry into the trade.
FIBC in 1920 to abandon its 2 50-year-old policy of auctioning only its own furs and to begin moving consignment pelts as well.
I wondered if Brother Jeremy would allow his glassworks to make a consignment of beads and crosses.
But more often they were three-way deals, cash at both ends and a trade in the middle: a consignment of Laotian teak marooned by bankruptcy in Singapore that they traded to the Poles for a warehouse of glass, which they sold on, strictly cash on delivery, to a discount warehouse in Chicago.
Some with no words at all, just pictures, little Crayola comic strips purporting to relate her own story back to her, tracing a narrow escape from murderous nondemocratic forces all the way to ultimate techno-cure and consignment to happy, waiting ranch family.
On consignment, he gave Brad a selection of novelty merchandise that could be peddled at almost any small business: little mechanical wind-up figures, key chains, penlights, punchboards, miniature telescopes with a pinup girl inside, playing cards, movie star pin-back buttons, two-headed nickels, and various other items that could be displayed next to a cash register to prompt impulse buying.
The first one told me to take the Ruritanian consignment to Zurich, but the Swiss buyer backed out at the last minute.
They were taking their usual autumn voyage up the Garonne, and, from Agen, were destined to various towns as far as the Pyrenees, where they remain all the oyster season, receiving, by the boat, twice a week, a consignment of oysters to be disposed of, on the spot where their residence is fixed.
Of course, it was really the strangers who were helping us, because not only were the Blackshirts afraid of harming any part of this precious new consignment of healthy blood, but our rarity value had depreciated considerably.
During the years when I was a furniture buyer for a national chain and no longer advised individual customers, I spent my free time buying and refinishing antiques, then selling them on consignment.
For all that the barren land through which they passed swarmed with ruffians of every description and for all that it was well known that among his wagons was the three-month payroll of the northern garrison and that of the government officials of the sister cities, not to mention stocks of food, wines, clothing, equipment and special consignments of luxury items, few banditti were willing to take on three hundred infantry and nearly a hundred horsemen.
Subject cargo was received from Snart Apl-Drawing on consignment for delivery to nearest human outpost.
She raised downcast eyes briefly to my face and at Annette’s prompting told me she was putting together a consignment of rhodonite, jasper, aventurine and tiger eye, for one of the largest firms of jewelry manufacturers.