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Definition: Consignee |
ConsigneeNoun1. The person to whom merchandise is delivered over. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "consignee" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Economics | The person or firm named in a freight contract to whom goods have been shipped or turned over for care. (references) |
Finance | The ultimate recipient of goods being shipped. (references) |
Shipping | A person or company to whom commodities are shipped. (references) |
Transportation | Person entitled to take delivery of the goods [VE1]. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commission | Viceroy; consignee; deputy. |
Agent, delegate, consignee. | |
Consignee | Noun: consignee, trustee, nominee, committee. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Consignee |
| English words defined with "consignee": Consignatary. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "consignee": Advanced Charge, Aggregate Shipment, Aggregated Shipments, Arrival Notice ♦ Bank Delivery Order to an Airline, Bank Release, Billing Third Party, Blind Shipment ♦ cargo manifest, car-record clerk, CFS, claims clerk, CONTAINER COORDINATOR ♦ Delivery Carrier, Delivery Order, DEMURRAGE CLERK ♦ full container load, full train load, fulltrain load ♦ General Order ♦ Hitchment ♦ immediately vital cargo, INCOMING-FREIGHT CLERK, Interchange Agreement ♦ MANAGER, TRAFFIC I ♦ PADAG ♦ Railway Abbreviations, Reconsignment, ROUTE-DELIVERY CLERK ♦ storage-wharfage clerk, Straight Bill of Lading ♦ Through Bill of Lading, train load movement, trainload movement ♦ Unclaimed Freight ♦ VOUCHER CLERK. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The average additional cost to the consignee is twenty percent of the landed price of the goods. (references) | |
In addition, consignor and consignee addresses should be written prominently on shipping packages. (references) | ||
This document requires the name, address, telephone and fax numbers of the exporter, the consignee, and the importer (in case that it is different from the consignee). (references) | ||
Economic History | Vietnam | Under Vietnamese law, the importer is the consignee. (references) |
Chad | The shipper or consignee usually covers the insurance portion of the delivery cost. (references) | |
Pakistan | Certificates of origin are not legally required but may be requested by the consignee or consignee's bank. (references) | |
Trade | Sri Lanka | Shipping marks should show consignee order number and port of entry. (references) |
Ireland | The consignee needs the original bill of lading to take possession of the goods. (references) | |
Venezuela | Thus, a consignee may make the required payments and remove the merchandise from customs. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Consignee" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Consignee" is used about 64 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 64 | 42,009 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "consignee": consignee-bank, consignee-creditor. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
consignee | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "consignee"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | marrës i ngarkesës. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المرسل إليه. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | получател на стока. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 承"人. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | modtager (addressee, recipient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ontvanger (recipient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | ricevanto (recipient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vastaanottaja (addressee, receiver, recipient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | destinataire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Empfänger (addressee, receiver, receptionist, receptor, recipient, recipients, transceiver), Warenempfänger. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παρακαταθέτησ, παραλήπτησ (receiver, recipient, taker), παραλήπτης (addressee, receiver, recipient), φύλακας αποσκευών (depositary), αποστολέας (consignor, originator, sender, sending entity, shipper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | címzett (addressee, recipient), bizományos (consigner, factor, stockist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | destinatario (acceptor, addressee, radio receiver, receiver, recipient), destinario (recipient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 荷受人 , 荷受け人 , 届け先 (destination, receiver's address). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | にうけに", とどけさき (destination, receiver's address). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 수탁자 (Bailee, trustee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | consainee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onsigneecay destinatário (addressee, receiver, remittee), consignatário (factor, receiver). (various references) comisionar (broker, carrier, commissionnaire, errand boy, middleman, outside porter, page, salesman), recepţionar (receiver), destinatar (addressee, receiver, recipient, remittee), adresant (addressee, recipient). (various references) грузополучатель;консигнатор, грузополучатель. (various references) primalac robe. (various references) destinatario (addressee, receiver, recipient), consignatario (remittee). (various references) varumottagare. (various references) emanetçi (bailee, depositary, depository, depot, trustee), alan (acceptor, ambit, area, arena, buyer, compass, court, courtyard, domain, extent, field, maidan, pitch, plaza, public square, purchaser, range, reach, realm, recipient, region, scope, space, sphere, square, susceptive, theater, theatre, tract, yard), alıcı (accepter, acceptor, addressee, buyer, client, consumer, customer, distributee, pickup, purchaser, receiver, receiving set, recipient, set, sounder, taker, vendee, wireless receiving set, wireless set). (various references) вантажоодержувач. (various references) người nhận h ng gửi để bán, người nhận (receiver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "consignee": consignees. (additional references) | |
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"Consignee" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: consionee, cosignee, Cynsige, Monsigny. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-g-i-n-n-o-s" | |
-2 letters: censing, cognise, coignes, congees, conines, consign, engines, genoise, incense, senecio, soignee. | |
-3 letters: coigne, coigns, congee, conges, conies, conine, coning, conins, cosign, cosine, engine, ensign, eosine, genies, icones, incogs, nieces, nonces, nosing, oscine, seeing, signee, soigne. | |
-4 letters: cense, cines, cions, coign, coins, cones, conge, conin, conns, cosie, eosin, genes, genic, genie, icons, incog, nenes. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-g-i-n-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: consignees. | |
+2 letters: ensorceling, geosyncline, oncogenesis. | |
+3 letters: congruencies, contingences, copresenting, crescendoing, cyanogenesis, decongesting, decongestion, ensorcelling, geosynclines, precensoring, recompensing, recondensing. | |
+4 letters: cogenerations, condescending, conferencings, contingencies, convergencies, countersigned, decongestions, eugeosyncline, genuflections, housecleaning, incongruences, miscegenation, nondecreasing, recognizances, reconsidering. | |
+5 letters: carcinogeneses, carcinogenesis, congenialities, decompensating, deconsecrating, eugeosynclinal, eugeosynclines, fictioneerings, housecleanings, immunogenetics, magniloquences, miscegenations, nonemergencies, oncogenicities, reconsecrating, serotoninergic, unbecomingness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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