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
What would its original consignee give for it, delivered now, even if it had not been underwater for 33 years?
From Time Magazine Archive
"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
A few hundred dollars for ship’s expenses was all that was ever found, and sometimes not even this—the master having, generally, an order on his consignee, for what moneys he might need.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes
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
He and his sons were the consignees of a part of the tea destroyed in Boston by the celebrated "Tea Party" December 1773.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by James H. Stark
