consignment

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun goods carried by a large vehicle
noun the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
noun the delivery of goods for sale or disposal

From consign + -ment.

He will come down with the next consignment. — On the Irrawaddy: A Story of the First Burmese War, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Not in one consignment, but slowly, one book after another. — Dostoevsky, André Gide
Jim Dunn was watching a large consignment of goods for the Company store being unloaded. — The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown

cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment

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