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Definition of Consigners
1. consigner [n] - See also: consigner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Consigners
Literary usage of Consigners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Decisions of the Court of Session: From November 1825 to [20th July 1841] by John Tawse, F. Somerville, John Craigie, George Robinson, Scotland Court of Session, Charles Gordon Robertson, Scotland High Court of Justiciary, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Faculty of Advocates (Scotland) (1839)
"1839. tinned to act to the satisfaction both of the directors and consigners.
>-pV*''/ A further dividend of 5 per cent, was this year also declared. ..."
2. Progress in the Household by Lucy Maynard Salmon (1906)
"... the by-law limiting consigners to self-supporting women stricken out, its
consigners known by name instead of by number, and the idea abandoned that it ..."
3. Home Making by Marion Harland (1911)
"Its consigners are obliged to purchase their own materials in small quantities
in retail markets, and therefore to place a higher price on their articles ..."
4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1846)
"The acceptances of Giro, which he had given to the Mediterranean consigners, when
dishonored, were taken up by the house of Baring &. ..."
5. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1846)
"The acceptances of Giro, which he had given to the Mediterranean consigners, when
dishonored, were taken up by the house of Baring & Co., on behalf of the ..."
6. The Alphabet of Economic Science by Philip Henry Wicksteed (1888)
"Of the ten extra units of area which they extracted from the consigners ...
to the consigners of qq4 in the shape of a deduction from the legitimate charge. ..."
7. Commentaries Upon International Law by Robert Phillimore (1861)
"The consigners brought a suit to recover the balance, and the question was at
what rate of exchange the balance should be allowed: this raised an earlier ..."
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