consignment
IPA: kʌnsˈaɪnmʌnt
noun
- A collection of goods to be sent, in transit or having been sent.
- The act of consigning.
- The sale of one's own goods (clothing, furniture, etc.) through a third-party vendor, in exchange for a portion of the sale price, and with the consigner retaining ownership of the goods until they are sold or abandoned.
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Examples of "consignment" in Sentences
- This consignment is completed by the sender.
- The consignment was sent aboard the manager.
- The consignment was later seized in the Netherlands.
- All packages In a consignment should be the same size.
- The consignment was a mixed one, containing different kinds of spirituous liquors.
- All this documents will enable you to clear the consignment from the career on deliver.
- The consignment was the biggest collection of indigenous animals ever confiscated by the national SPCA in South Africa.
- The Big Six want to switch to #3, which I'm going to call the consignment model until someone more knowledgeable corrects me.
- We also reclassified some of our long-term consignment assets from Credence into the inventory line which is more consistent with the way LTX historically accounts for consignments.
- The writer suggested that the new model should be called the consignment model, because under it, everything's set by the publisher, and the money passes through the consignment store.
- NewswireToday (newswire) - 04 / 20 / 2009 Baton Rouge, LA United States - A Baton Rouge Salon expands their retail area from typical hair products by opening a designer label consignment boutique.
- There's a picture of me and my sister-in-law Vicki (from behind, unfortunately) at the 2nd one behind the table selling the hell out of anime books and model kits I took on consignment from the local comic book distributor.
- The consignment is the subject of a legal battle between its owners and the shipping agent who transported the weapons to Yemen and back again in 1994, and is presently being stored under court order by the South African National Defence Force at its Roedtan ammunition depot near Potgietersrus in the Northern Province.
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