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consignment

[kuhn-sahyn-muhnt] / kənˈsaɪn mənt /


NOUN
something entrusted to another's care
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Jennifer Galante Han, a digital strategy consultant, used the trunk-show model for La Volta, the consignment and vintage business she started earlier this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

“We had a table and chairs that would seat 12 people and came from Peter’s grandparents. The table was marred on top and the consignment people wouldn’t take it,” she said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

He said he pocketed half of the proceeds of each consignment reaching the UK, with each being worth up to £250,000.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

After gas spending, miscellaneous retailers—a category including gift shops and consignment stores—registered the highest growth in sales with a 2.3% monthly gain.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

One afternoon while McCandless was tending the book table at the Niland swap meet, somebody left a portable electric organ with Burres to sell on consignment.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Archived, whose clientele consists mostly of celebrities and high-profile curators such as Timothée Chalamet, Travis Scott and Don Toliver, sources its pieces through consignments from sellers and endless hours spent hunting across international marketplaces.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

"We're seeing 20 to 30 percent more engagement, more registration, more people bidding," Ibrahim Faraj, Propstore's UK consignments manager, explained at a media preview of some British-based items before they headed to California.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

And they are no longer paying him on delivery, he says, instead adopting a "sale or return" model where consignments not sold are returned to the company, entirely transferring the risk to the manufacturer.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2025

"The situation could worsen if the EU, which regularly rejects Indian spice consignments over quality issues, follows suits."

From BBC ● May 14, 2024

The records of these consignments were, of course, scattered and have long since been lost.

From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Ralph Delahaye Paine


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