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Definition of Consignments
1. consignment [n] - See also: consignment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Consignments
Literary usage of Consignments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Accounting Theory and Practice by Roy Bernard Kester (1917)
"dum accounts, consignments and consignments-In, are cancelled against each other
... Entry is made in a blotter or memorandum book of consignments received, ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"He docs not bind himself to make consignments to them; but not to make consignments
to any other house in the Netherlands. If any doubt could arise from ..."
3. Principles of Accounting by John Raymond Wildman (1922)
"CHAPTER XIX consignments The whole subject of consignment must for the purpose
of discussion be divided into two parts, namely, consignments received and ..."
4. The Applied Theory of Accounts by Paul-Joseph Esquerré (1914)
"CHAPTER XVII consignments—SHIPMENTS INWARD Relations of Consignor and Consignee
While the ... consignments made to either class of consignees establish, ..."
5. A Handbook of Bankers' Law by Henry Robertson (1876)
"Receipts for Judicial and other consignments.—Judicial consignments are generally
payable to the party preferred to the fund by decree of the Court. ..."
6. Bookkeeping for Modern Business: Advanced Course by John George Kirk, James Layman Street (1921)
"consignments may, therefore, be divided into two parts, namely, consignments
received and ... consignments received are usually known as consignments-in, ..."
7. Accounting Practice: A Comprehensive Statement of Accounting Principles and by Leo Greendlinger, John William Schulze (1914)
"consignments inward and outward.—consignments of goods either inward or outward
... Therefore, we may say that consignments inward may be for the account of ..."
8. Railway Rates: The Method of Calculating Equitable Rates and Charges for by Joseph Horrocks (1909)
"... (continued)—SMALL consignments PARCELS and packages forming small consignments
of goods are often tendered to railway companies for conveyance, ..."
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