'Consignment' definitions:
Definition of 'consignment'
(from WordNet)
noun
Goods carried by a large vehicle [syn: cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignment]
noun
The official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) [syn: commitment, committal, consignment]
noun
The delivery of goods for sale or disposal
Definition of 'Consignment'
From: GCIDE
- Consignment \Con*sign"ment\, n.
- 1. The act of consigning; consignation. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Com.) The act of consigning or sending property to an agent or correspondent in another place, as for care, sale, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Com.) That which is consigned; the goods or commodities sent or addressed to a consignee at one time or by one conveyance. [1913 Webster]
- To increase your consignments of this valuable branch of national commerce. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The writing by which anything is consigned. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'consignment'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abalienation,
- agency,
- agentship,
- alienation,
- amortization,
- amortizement,
- assignation,
- assignment,
- authority,
- authorization,
- baggage,
- bargain and sale,
- barter,
- bequeathal,
- brevet,
- care,
- cargo,
- cession,
- charge,
- commendation,
- commission,
- commissioning,
- commitment,
- committal,
- conferment,
- conferral,
- consignation,
- conveyance,
- conveyancing,
- cure,
- deeding,
- delegated authority,
- delegation,
- deliverance,
- delivery,
- demise,
- deputation,
- devolution,
- devolvement,
- disposal,
- disposition,
- embassy,
- empowerment,
- enfeoffment,
- entrusting,
- entrustment,
- errand,
- exchange,
- executorship,
- exequatur,
- factorship,
- freight,
- freightage,
- full power,
- giving,
- goods,
- impedimenta,
- infeodation,
- infeudation,
- jurisdiction,
- lading,
- lease and release,
- legation,
- license,
- lieutenancy,
- load,
- luggage,
- mandate,
- mission,
- mittimus,
- office,
- pack,
- payload,
- plenipotentiary power,
- power of attorney,
- power to act,
- procuration,
- proxy,
- purview,
- recommitment,
- regency,
- regentship,
- relegation,
- remand,
- remanding,
- responsibility,
- sale,
- settlement,
- settling,
- shipment,
- surrender,
- task,
- trading,
- transfer,
- transference,
- transmission,
- transmittal,
- trust,
- trusteeship,
- vesting,
- vicarious authority,
- warrant