Consignee

/kənsˈaɪniː/

[noun]

Consignee

[NOUN]

the person to whom merchandise is delivered over

Examples

1. Now the East India Company would sell the surplus tea directly through hand-picked consignees in America.

2. Two thousand tunnel cars filled with freight are delivered to the various railroad terminals daily, and eight hundred cars are loaded for delivery to local consignees and other railroads.

3. And in 1773 when Britain passed the Tea Act, making it possible to sell East India Company tea directly in the colonies through consignees for the first time at prices low enough to compete with smugglers, Copley's father-in-law felt that he was very lucky in getting one of the licenses to sell it in Boston.