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How to pronounce consign in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms charge
Type of trust, commit, confide, entrust, intrust
Has types soak, hock, check, pawn, pledge
Derivation consignee, consigner


consign your baggage.
Type Words
Type of abandon
Derivation consignment, consignor
Type Words
Type of deliver
Derivation consignment

Examples of consign

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The argument of integrity has swept the bill of selecting companies to consign.
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Wright is impossible to consign to any single theological or ideological category.
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If Reading lose on Saturday, then surely that must consign them to relegation.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
Schiller is a writer I'm all too ready to consign to his corner of the canon.
From the latimes.com
As individuals what's the best thing we can do to consign poverty to museums?
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So why did my husband and I consign ourselves to this exclusive penitentiary?
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Lancaster was determined to consign the failed World Cup campaign to history.
From the guardian.co.uk
If you can't hold a sale in your neighborhood, consign your items at a resale shop.
From the stltoday.com
Heeding those calls would effectively consign Mubarak to political oblivion.
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More examples
  • Commit forever; commit irrevocably
  • Give over to another for care or safekeeping; "consign your baggage"
  • Send to an address
  • (consignment) cargo: goods carried by a large vehicle
  • (consignment) commitment: the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
  • (consignment) the delivery of goods for sale or disposal
  • To transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping; To entrust to the care of another; To send to a final destination
  • (consignment) A collection of goods to be sent, in transit or having been sent; The act of consigning
  • (Consignment) Delivery of merchandise to the buyer or distributor, whereby the latter agrees to sell it and only then pay the exporter. The seller retains ownership of the goods until they are sold, but also carries all of the financial burden and risk.