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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONSIGNMENT, n.
1. The act of consigning; consignation; the act of sending or committing, as a charge for safe-keeping or management; the act of depositing with, as goods for sale.
2. The thing consigned; the goods sent or delivered to a factor for sale; as, A received a large consignment of goods from B.
3. The writing by which any thing is consigned.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: goods carried by a large vehicle [syn: cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignment]
2: the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) [syn: commitment, committal, consignment]
3: the delivery of goods for sale or disposal

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: circa 1668 1. the act or process of consigning 2. something consigned especially in a single shipment II. adjective Date: 1913 of, relating to, or received as goods on consignment <a consignment sale>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the act or an instance of consigning; the process of being consigned. 2 a batch of goods consigned.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Consignment 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(consignments) A consignment of goods is a load that is being delivered to a place or person. The first consignment of food has already left Bologna. = batch N-COUNT: oft N of n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Sending, shipping. 2. Goods shipped, amount shipped.

Moby Thesaurus

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