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abalienate, assign to, authorize, charge, commit, commit to another's trust, committere, convey, deliver, deliver formally, deliver over, deposit with, entrust, give in trust, hand over, have conveyed, send, ship, transfer, transfer for sale, transmit, transplant, transport, turn over
associated concepts: bailment, conditional sale, consignment contract of goods
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alienate (transfer title), allocate, assign (transfer ownership), attorn, authorize, cede, commit (entrust), commit (institutionalize), confide (trust), contribute (supply), convey (transfer), delegate, detail (assign), disperse (disseminate), divide (distribute), entrust, give (grant), grant (transfer formally), leave (give), mete, refer (send for action), relegate, remand, remit (submit for consideration), transfer, transmit, transport, vest
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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v.To entrust goods to someone else; to deliver goods to the custody of a carrier or agent, usually so that they can be sold.
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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1) To give goods to another to sell; profits from the sale are generally divided between the seller and the original owner.2) To give goods to a carrier for delivery.3) To give over to the custody or care of another.4) To be destined for, as in "consigned to oblivion" or "consigned to a life of drudgery."Category: Business, LLCs & CorporationsCategory: Personal Finance & Retirement
Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. Gerald N. Hill, Kathleen Thompson Hill. 2009.
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v.1) to deliver goods to a merchant to sell on behalf of the party delivering the items, as distinguished from transferring to a retailer at a wholesale price for re-sale. Example: leaving one's auto at a dealer to sell and split the profit.2) to deliver to a carrier to be taken to an agent of the sender.3) when a debtor has belongings but no money to pay his/her creditors and deposits his/her goods with a trustee who will sell them to raise money to pay the owner's debts and creditors. This is done by agreement between a debtor and his/her creditors or by order of a bankruptcy judge.
Law dictionary. EdwART. 2013.