consign
Deliver for safekeeping
Consign means to hand something over, usually for a specific purpose.
You consign goods to a shipping company for delivery, or consign items to an auction house for sale.
She consigned her grandmother's jewelry to Christie's.
More broadly, to consign is to relegate or assign to a fate: The defeat consigned them to obscurity.
In consignment shops, owners leave goods to be sold on their behalf, receiving payment only if the item sells.
Unavoidable grim fate
- condemnDeclare wrong or guilty
- relegateAssign to inferior position
- destineFix future outcome
- banishOfficially send away
abandon · cast · sentence · damn · commit · surrender · oblivion · obscurity
Entrust authority to another
- commitBind to a course
- chargeCost or accusation
- vestSleeveless upper-body garment
- hand overTransfer to another's control
relegate · transfer · deposit · place · surrender · yield · give over · submit
Goods being transported
- freightGoods being transported
- cargoTransported goods
- dispatchSend with speed
- logisticsCoordination of complex activities
transport · carrier · warehouse · manifest · bill of lading · forwarding · export · import
Place for safekeeping
- storeRetail establishment
- lodgeTemporary woodland dwelling
- fileStored collection of data
- recordPreserved account or achievement
repository · vault · storage · preservation · collection · catalog · accession · inventory
Bulk sales to merchants
- retailSales to end users
- merchandiseCommercial products offered
- vendorOne who sells goods
- distributorEntity channeling goods downstream
dealership · auction · secondhand · resale · thrift · inventory · stock · marketplace
doom
Unavoidable grim fate
banish · abandon · cast · sentence · damn · commit · surrender · oblivion · obscurity · history
delegate
Entrust authority to another
hand over · relegate · transfer · deposit · place · surrender · yield · give over · submit · remit
shipment
Goods being transported
logistics · transport · carrier · warehouse · manifest · bill of lading · forwarding · export · import · distribution
deposit
Place for safekeeping
record · repository · vault · storage · preservation · collection · catalog · accession · inventory · documentation
wholesale
Bulk sales to merchants
- retailSales to end users
- merchandiseCommercial products offered
- vendorOne who sells goods
distributor · dealership · auction · secondhand · resale · thrift · inventory · stock · marketplace · brokerage
- transfer verbsgive, pass, send, share, hand
- logistics verbsship, deliver, receive, dispatch, transport
- supply chain verbssupply, deliver, distribute, ship, transport
- commercetrade, banking, merchant, imports, sales
- tradingbid, buy, ask, sell, trading
- funeral ritesfuneral, bury, burial, funeral mass, burial rites
- consignment shopsStores selling goods for owners
- consignment storesShops selling goods for owners
- consignment saleSale of others' goods
consignment, consigned, consignee, consigning, consignor, consigns, consignments, consigner, consignees