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
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
To deliver it in this state meant a possible, nay, probable rejection by the consignees; but fortunately the skipper of the Quilboma rose to the occasion.
From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
