consignment.

1. Goods sent together to a particular destination.

2. An arrangement in which goods are held and sold for their owner without an immediate outright purchase.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• export consignment
• consignment of machinery

On the page

The export consignment reached the port two days late.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Singular consignment; plural consignments. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, evaluation, business. Commonness: moderately common.