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consignee

[kon-sahy-nee, -si-, kuhn-sahy-] / ˌkɒn saɪˈni, -sɪ-, kən saɪ- /
NOUN
bearer
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Police said they were seeking a man called Wilmane Jean, who is named in the customs data as the consignee for the shipment - the person responsible for receiving it.

From BBC Apr. 16, 2025

The recalled products were distributed to one consignee in Wisconsin.

From Salon Apr. 10, 2024

"My point is that that manifest doesn't support definitively one or the other except to say that the consignee is the Ministry of Defense in Kenya."

From Time Magazine Archive

What would its original consignee give for it, delivered now, even if it had not been underwater for 33 years?

From Time Magazine Archive

When the entire cargo is unloaded, and the slacks and bad-order bags are weighed and marked, the warehouseman tallies up the records of his clerks, and renders a corrected chop list to the consignee.

From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

In total, 26 people on the list were named as consignees for 286 shipments, which took place before the individuals were put under sanctions or arrested.

From BBC Apr. 16, 2025

We followed the man inside and watched as he posted at least 15 parcels to different consignees around the world.

From BBC Mar. 1, 2024

A method of developing sensitized paper by heat may find its industrial application in making wrappings for fruit, to warn consignees when shipments have not been kept below spoiling temperature.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its officers, acting for consignees who claimed they had paid up but had not received their oxide, held the Konigsberg's skipper on larceny charges.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Nazro handed me the portage bill showing the amount to be collected from each of the 150 consignees.

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by George Francis Train




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