consigner

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When we got a new consigner, I was really excited, because I had seen these karate pants before in other fabrications, but I never saw them in this snakeskin.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2024

The consigner we were going to see, Tanya Monaghan, was the mother of one of her children’s school friends.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 14, 2019

“When I spoke with the consigner, he said, ‘What do you think the estimate should be?’ ”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 27, 2016

The consigner of the skeleton has pleaded guilty to helping to smuggle numerous dinosaur remains into the U.S. and is out on $100,000 bail, awaiting sentencing.

From Forbes • Jun. 5, 2013

A valuable privilege under which an unpaid consigner or broker may stop or countermand his goods upon their passage to the consignee on the insolvency of the vendee.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir