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Definition of Consigned
1. consign [v] - See also: consign
Lexicographical Neighbors of Consigned
Literary usage of Consigned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy Under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898 by William Miller Collier, William Horace Hotchkiss, Frank Bixby Gilbert, Fred Eugene Rosbrook (1921)
"A rubber company by contract made bankrupt its agent, and consigned to him ...
The agent was not only permitted to mingle the consigned goods with his own ..."
2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1859)
"Steamship Isabel, Rollins, from Charleston for Key West ; ran ashore on the
Washerwoman Shoal ; took assistance ; consigned to AF Tilt ; value, ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1859)
"Bark Eglantine, Gleason, from New Orleans for Boston ; ashore on French Reef ;
got off and repaired; consigned to Packer & Clark; value, $20000 ; expenses, ..."
4. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"It was estimated that the tax upon consigned goods would impose a burden of three
hundred thousand dollars a year upon the commerce of San Francisco, ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"... Co. four cars cattle, consigned from Shelby ... Presumably, therefore, moneys
deposited by them were the proceeds of cattle consigned to them for sale. ..."
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