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reconsign


verb (used with object)

  1. to hand over or deliver formally or officially; commit (often followed by to).
  2. to transfer to another’s custody or charge; entrust.
  3. to set apart for or devote to (a special purpose or use): to consign two afternoons a week to the club.
  4. to banish or set apart in one’s mind; relegate: to consign unpleasant thoughts to oblivion.
  5. Commerce.
    1. to ship, as by common carrier, especially for sale or custody.
    2. to address for such shipment.
  6. Obsolete. to confirm or ratify, as with a seal or other token.

verb (used without object)

  1. to agree or assent.
  2. Obsolete. to yield or submit.

verb (mainly tr)

  1. to hand over or give into the care or charge of another; entrust
  2. to commit irrevocablyhe consigned the papers to the flames
  3. to commit for admittanceto consign someone to jail
  4. to address or deliver (goods) for sale, disposal, etcit was consigned to his London address
  5. (intr) obsolete to assent; agree
v.

early 15c., “to ratify by a sign or seal,” from Middle French consigner (15c.), from Latin consignare “to seal, register,” originally “to mark with a sign,” from com- “together” (see com-) + signare “to sign, mark,” from signum “sign” (see sign (n.)). Commercial sense is from 1650s. Related: Consignee; consignor.

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