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consigned

[kuhn-sahyn]

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verb (used with object)

to hand over or deliver formally or officially; commit (often followed by to).

to transfer to another's custody or charge; entrust.

to set apart for or devote to (a special purpose or use): to consign two afternoons a week to the club.

to banish or set apart in one's mind; relegate: to consign unpleasant thoughts to oblivion.

Commerce.

to ship, as by common carrier, especially for sale or custody.

to address for such shipment.

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Obsolete. to confirm or ratify, as with a seal or other token.

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verb (used without object)

to agree or assent.

Obsolete. to yield or submit.

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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English; apparently (< Middle French consigner) < Medieval Latin consignāre to mark with sign of cross, Latin: to mark with a seal. See con-, sign

Related forms

con·sign·a·ble, adjective

con·sig·na·tion

[kon-sig-ney-shuhn] , noun

pre·con·sign, verb (used with object)

re·con·sign, verb (used with object)

un·con·sign·a·ble, adjective

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un·con·signed, adjective

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Synonyms
1. relegate, assign. 2. confide.

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Example Sentences

The second is when the body is consigned to the grave.

Ehrenreich had the luxury of knowing that she wasn't consigned to working for minimum wage forever.

Until late last year the dealmaking had been safely consigned to the annals of shareholder-value destruction.

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The second is when the body is consigned to the grave.

Ehrenreich had the luxury of knowing that she wasn't consigned to working for minimum wage forever.

Until late last year the dealmaking had been safely consigned to the annals of shareholder-value destruction.

They have consigned smallpox to history and should soon do the same for polio.

Garbage trucks are about to be consigned to the dustbin of history.

He had packed it in a trunk and consigned it to himself.

Books are consigned to stores, which is a wacky way to distribute anything.

But if an international group of accountants has its way, such fillips to the bottom line could soon be consigned to history.

They play a strain of punk that has consigned innumerable bands to the obscurity of dive bars and pirate radio.

For better or worse, it's consigned to the fickle custody of history.

It was traditionally consigned to hedgerows, protecting more valuable, edible crops from peckish goats.

Worries over self-replicating nanorobots-“grey goo”-may have been consigned to the dustbin.

Rightly, that is now consigned to the scrapheap of woeful clichés.

Anyone who forecast such news two years ago would have been consigned to the funny farm.

If the federal government chooses not to appeal, her finding will stand and the offending policy will be consigned to history.

If that happens, some of them suspect, they risk being consigned to the secular equivalent of limbo-the uninsured.

The vase had been consigned by an anonymous brother and sister who were clearing out a suburban family home.

Facchin consigned both the trash and the merrymakers to the dump.

Despite being consigned to the history books, there's still a chance of smallpox coming back to haunt us-as a biological weapon.

For those of us consigned to our own realms this summer, six of these expert bakers offer peerless pies to make at home.

Not, however, before some companies had consigned their electronics businesses to the fate of the cash cow.

Surely the old imperial system should have been consigned to the dust bin of history by now.

Those whose comments' many such links have consigned them to the moderation queue will not be approved.

When this approach failed, alcoholics were often consigned to bleak state.

But desalting plants do not dot the world's coasts, and water shortages have not been consigned to history.

The opposition won out, and the private insurance idea seemed consigned to the dustbin of.

Yet beneath the surface lies widespread racism and migrants consigned to state housing projects and poverty.

Goodbar" is so good a read, so stunningly commercial as a novel, that it runs the risk of being consigned to artistic oblivion.

Most musical instruments wear out or are consigned to niche markets by design changes.

Annette goes insane and is consigned to the care of a servant.

Waldon worries that she, too, might be consigned to a life no one wants to live.

None of this is rocket science, posturing and gesture politics needs to be consigned to the past.

But it wasn't long ago that the furniture was consigned to oblivion.

She was consigned to an agent on the coast, and was to take the slaves that had been purchased for the brig.

Financial speculation economies are doomed to fail in the long run, and will be consigned to the scrapheap of history.

White lab coats and ties were quickly consigned to the dustbin.

Descriptive dictionaries should be consigned to the bonfire.

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Word Origin & History

consign

c.1430, from M.Fr. consigner, from L. consignare "to seal, register," originally "to mark with a sign," from com- "together" + signare "to sign, mark," from signum "sign." Originally "to ratify by a sign or seal;" commercial sense is from 1650s. Related: Consignee (1789); consignor (1789).

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