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Consignment   /kənsˈaɪnmənt/   Listen
Consignment

noun
1.
Goods carried by a large vehicle.  Synonyms: cargo, freight, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment.
2.
The official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital).  Synonyms: commitment, committal.
3.
The delivery of goods for sale or disposal.





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"Consignment" Quotes from Famous Books



... ritsehvon'toh Send by fast train | Sendu per rapidira | sehn'doo pehr | vagono | rahpeedee'rah | | vahgo'no It is short weight | Mankas iom al la pezo | mahn-kahss ee-ohm ahl | | la peh-zo What is the | Kiom estas la pezo? | kee-ohm eh-stahss la weight? | | peh-zo? The consignment is | La sendajxo estas | la sehndah'zho ehstahss bad | malbona | mahl-bo'nah Not according to | Ne laux specimeno | neh lahw ...
— Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation • William W. Mann
... many incomprehensible things: the delay in publication of Adrian's book; the change of title; the burning of Adrian's last written words on the blotting pad; the vivid pictures that were obviously not Adrian's; the consignment to a printer's Limbo of the original manuscripts; my own placid disassociation from the literary side of the executorship. She had accepted them—not without protest; but she had in fact accepted them. Now she struck a reef of things more incomprehensible ...
— Jaffery • William J. Locke
... speechless,'—or, as the word means, 'muzzled.' The man is self-condemned, and, having nothing to say in extenuation, the solemn promise is pronounced of ejection from the lighted hall, with limbs bound so that he cannot struggle, and consignment to the blackness outside, of which our Lord adds, in words not put into the king's mouth, but which we have heard from Him before, 'There shall be the [well-known and terrible] weeping and gnashing of teeth—awful though figurative ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII • Alexander Maclaren
... incomparable speed and good luck had made her out of sight the prime favourite with those passengers who were obliged to cross the Atlantic, war or no war, and for the same reasons she also carried more mails and specie than any other liner, and this voyage she had an enormously valuable consignment of both on board. As for passengers, every available foot of space was taken for ...
— The Angel of the Revolution - A Tale of the Coming Terror • George Griffith
... this admitted, they performed a war dance round the cases, and assisted in transporting them. All went well this time, and in due course the tables were loaded with thousands of a plant which, before the consignment was announced, had been the special glory of a collection which is among ...
— About Orchids - A Chat • Frederick Boyle


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