consignment
Other forms: consignments
Consignment means the delivery of things, like clothing or furniture, for sale or donation to someone else. A "consignment shop" is a clothing store that sells other people's clothing and goods.
Consignment is a commercial term that refers to a giving over of objects. If your goods are on consignment, you still technically own them while they are on sale at the consignment shop. The word sometimes refers literally to goods being delivered or shipped, such as food or cargo. Consignment can also mean entrusting a person into the care of someone else, as when you put your aging grandparents in an old-aged home.
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the delivery of goods for sale or disposal
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goods carried by a large vehicle
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the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
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synonyms:
commitment, committal
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type of:
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confinement
the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them
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confinement
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Vocabulary lists containing consignment
Nonfiction writer Jon Krakauer retraces the steps of Christopher McCandless, a young man who gave up his material possessions and met a tragic end in the wilds of Alaska.
In South Carolina, a girl reckons with her mother's death while under the care of three sisters.
In this translation from German by Hilda Rosner, a young man named Siddhartha, not entirely satisfied with the religious ways of his Brahmin family and Gotama the Buddha, decides to seek his own path to spiritual enlightenment.