consignee

From consign + -ee.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɒn.saɪˈniː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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.

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