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consignor

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con⋅sign⋅or

  [kuhn-sahy-ner, kon-sahy-nawr]
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–noun
a person or company that consigns goods, merchandise, etc.
Also, con⋅sign⋅er  [kuhn-sahy-ner] .

Origin:
1780–90; consign + -or 2
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con·sign   (kən-sīn')   
v.   con·signed, con·sign·ing, con·signs

v.   tr.

  1. To give over to the care of another; entrust.

  2. To turn over permanently to another's charge or to a lasting condition; commit irrevocably: "Their desponding imaginations had already consigned him to a watery grave" (William Hickling Prescott).

  3. To deliver (merchandise, for example) for custody or sale.

  4. To set apart, as for a special use or purpose; assign. See Synonyms at commit.

v.   intr. Obsolete
To submit; consent.

[Middle English consignen, to certify by seal, from Old French consigner, from Latin cōnsignāre : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + signāre, to mark (from signum, mark; see sekw-1 in Indo-European roots).]
con·sign'a·ble adj., con'sig·na'tion (kŏn'sī-nā'shən, -sĭg-) n., con·sig'nor, con·sign'er n.
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