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
It is therefore but just that the consignor and consignee should have the benefit of the reduced cost of such shipments.
From The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by William Larrabee
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
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
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
I made inquiries last night about the people who would most likely be consignees here, and this morning I went to a house on Harbor Street,—Beaver & Hughes.
From Mrs. Cliff's Yacht by Frank Richard Stockton
