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Definition of Consignment

1. Noun. Goods carried by a large vehicle.

2. Noun. The official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital).

3. Noun. The delivery of goods for sale or disposal.

Definition of Consignment

1. n. The act of consigning; consignation.

Definition of Consignment

1. Noun. A collection of goods to be sent, in transit or having been sent ¹

2. Noun. The act of consigning ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Consignment

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Consignment

consignature consigned consignee consignees consigner consigners consignificant consignification consignifications consignificative

consignified consignifies consignify consignifying consigning consignment consignments consignor consignors consigns

consilience consiliences consilient consilium abeundi consist consist in consistant consisted consisted in consistence

Literary usage of Consignment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. 20th Century Bookkeeping and Accounting: A Treatise on Modern Bookkeeping by James Williams Baker (1918)
"For cash, notes, or acceptances, on account of the consignment. For the net proceeds shown on the account sales rendered by the consignee. ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"The consignment of defendants was not received or saved by them, separately or ... A part of the defendants' consignment remained in the ship to the last, ..."

3. Commercial Handbook of China by Julean Arnold (1920)
"Consignment OF GOODS. None of the Shanghai banks accept consignment of goods—that is, a consignment of goods made on agreement between the shipper and the ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Agency: Including Special Classes of Agents by William Lawrence Clark, Henry Heckerman Skyles (1905)
"A forwarder's receipt, stating receipt of certain goods for, or to be forwarded to, the factor, is a consignment in terms to the factor as much as if a ..."

5. Accounting in Theory and Practice: A Text-book for the Use of Accountants by George Lisle (1906)
"The corresponding account in the books of the consigner is headed merely " Consignment Account" or " Consignment Outwards Account." The statement which the ..."

6. Accounting in Theory and Practice: A Text-book for the Use of Accountants by George Lisle (1906)
"The corresponding account in the books of the consigner is headed merely " Consignment Account" or " Consignment Outwards Account." The statement which the ..."

7. A Treatise on the Law of Sales of Personal Property: Including the Law of by Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman (1891)
"Sale distinguished from consignment.— A consignment of goods to a, factor or commission ... And whenever the consignment is revoked, the identical goods ..."

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