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CONSIGNEE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does consignee mean?
• CONSIGNEE (noun)
The noun CONSIGNEE has 1 sense:
1. the person to whom merchandise is delivered over
Familiarity information: CONSIGNEE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The person to whom merchandise is delivered over
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("consignee" is a kind of...):
receiver; recipient (a person who receives something)
Derivation:
consign (give over to another for care or safekeeping)
Context examples
Harker has got the letters between the consignee of the boxes at Whitby and the carriers in London who took charge of them.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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