consignee

See also: consignée

English

Etymology

From consign +‎ -ee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɒn.saɪˈniː/

Noun

consignee (plural consignees)

1. The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered.
2. One to whom anything is consigned or entrusted.
   • 1878, Henry James, An International Episode‎:

     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.

Derived terms

• consigneeship

Related terms

• consignment
• consignor

Translations

The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered

Bulgarian: получа́тел (bg) m (polučátel) Chinese: Mandarin: 收貨人 / 收货人 (zh) (shōuhuòrén), 收件人 (zh) (shōujiànrén) Czech: příjemce (cs) m, adresát (cs) m Esperanto: adresito Finnish: saaja (fi), vastaanottaja (fi) French: destinataire (fr) m or f, consignataire (fr) m or f German: Empfänger (de) m, Adressat (de) m Greek: παραλήπτης (el) m (paralíptis) Japanese: 引受人 (ひきうけにん, hikiukenin), 荷受人 (にうけにん, niukenin), 受託者 (ja) (じゅたくしゃ, jutakusha) Polish: odbiorca (pl) m Portuguese: destinatário (pt) m Russian: получа́тель (ru) m (polučátelʹ), адреса́т (ru) m (adresát) (гру́за) Spanish: destinatario (es) m Turkish: alıcı (tr)

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