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consignee en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˌkɒn.saɪˈniː/

Etymology

From consign + -ee.

Meanings

1. The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered.
2. One to whom anything is consigned or entrusted.
   • The letter had been given to the two Englishmen by a good friend of theirs in London, who had been in America two years previously, and had singled out Mr. J. L. Westgate from the many friends he had left there as the consignee, as it were, of his compatriots. 1878, Henry James, An International Episode:

Forms

Coordinates

consignor · consigner

Deriveds

consigneeship

Relateds

consignment shop · signatory · consignment · signer · signee

Translations (25)

cs adresát (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered) · fr destinataire (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered) · ja 引受人 (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered) · ru адреса́т (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered) · ca consignatari (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered) · de Adressat (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered) · ca consignatària (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered) · el παραλήπτης (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered) · ja 受託者 (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered) · es destinatario (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered) · ja 荷受人 (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered) · pl odbiorca (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered) · fi vastaanottaja (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered) · tr alıcı (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered) · az yükalan (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered) · fi saaja (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered) · cmn 收貨人 /收货人 (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered) · eo adresito (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered) · cmn 收件人 (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered) · de Empfänger (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered) · cs příjemce (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered) · fr consignataire (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered) · ru получа́тель (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered) · bg получа́тел (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered) · pt destinatário (The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered)