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Consignee   Listen
noun
Consignee  n.  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."






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"Consignee" Quotes from Famous Books



... given to the two Englishmen by a good friend of theirs in London, who had been in America two years previously, and had singled out Mr. J. L. Westgate from the many friends he had left there as the consignee, as it were, of his compatriots. "He is a capital fellow," the Englishman in London had said, "and he has got an awfully pretty wife. He's tremendously hospitable—he will do everything in the world for you; and as he knows everyone over there, it is quite ...
— An International Episode • Henry James

... Mr. Gibney at the exposition of his ignorance that he desired to hide the confusion evident in his sun-tanned face. So he stooped over the crates and pretended to be exceedingly interested in them, hauling and pushing them about and reading the address of the consignee who had failed to call for his goods. The crates were both consigned to the Gin Seng Company, 714 Dupont Street, San Francisco. There were several Chinese characters scrawled on the top of each crate, together with the words, ...
— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne

... deep in thought. He had a profound respect for the commercial sagacity of this clear-headed woman. Moreover, he was sure, as usual, to be asked to act in Philadelphia as a consignee of ...
— Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker • S. Weir Mitchell



Words linked to "Consignee" :   receiver, consign, recipient



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