consignee

See also: consignée

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English consign

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātus

Old French -ébor.

Middle English -ee

English -ee

English consignee

From consign + -ee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɒn.saɪˈniː/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

consignee (plural consignees)

1. The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered.
2. One to whom anything is consigned or entrusted.

   Coordinate terms: consigner, consignor

   • 1878, Henry James, An International Episode‎^[1]:

     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
• consignment shop
• signatory
• signee
• signer

Translations

The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered

• Azerbaijani: yükalan
• Bulgarian: получа́тел (bg) m (polučátel)
• Catalan: consignatari m, consignatària f
• 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)
• Vietnamese: người nhận (vi), người nhận hàng (vi)

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