consignee

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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

Convoys travelled from Agade to Lagash as early as the time of Sargon I.744 Innumerable labels are found on lumps of clay with the name and address of the consignee.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)