[f. CONSIGN v. + -EE.] A person to whom goods are consigned.
1789. Buller, Term Rep., III. 469. There is the strongest evidence of the consignee’s taking actual possession of the goods.
1866. Crump, Banking, vii. 142. A corn merchant at New York ships a cargo to London, and … draws a bill upon the consignee.
1886. Sir C. Russell in Daily News, 10 Dec., 3/2. He asserted the right of the company to send consignee letters; that was, letters sent in reference to the consignment of goods.
Hence Consigneeship.
1837. Leeds Intelligencer, 13 May, 7/4. Messrs Good had never renounced the consignee-ship, but had only wished to leave the goods on board the neutral vessel in order to avoid the impending confiscation.
1876. Bancroft, Hist. U.S., VI. 503. [A] town-meeting … invites the Hutchinsons to resign their consigneeship.
