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consignment

1. a shipment of goods consigned
2. on consignment for payment by the consignee after sale
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Suffice it that Santos had wind that big consignments of Austrailian gold were shortly to be shipped home to England; that he, like myself, had done nothing on the diggings, where he had looked to make his fortune, and out of which he meant to make it still.
All our consignments have long been made to Rovinghams' the commission- merchants; and although, as a check upon them, and in the stewardship of my father's resources, your judgment and watchfulness have been actively exerted, still those qualities would have influenced my father's fortunes equally, if you had lived in any private dwelling: would they not?'
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MCC Deputy Collector Ihsanullah Shah said that the consignment was shipped from Poland under description of 'Summer Fluid' which was used in manufacturing of shampoos, adding that irrelevant description was used to hoodwink the custom authorities in order to get the consignment cleared from port.
Summary: Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Jan 28 (ANI): A replica of a hand grenade was recovered at Mumbai Airport during the screening of Cargo Consignment which was supposed to be sent on an Indigo flight.
Riyadh, 18 Safar,1439 AH, 07 November,2017 , SPA -- Al-Batha Customs has managed to foil two attempts to smuggle a quantity of 22,165 bottles of wines hidden in two consignments. The Director General of Customs Batha Ziad Al-Balawi said that in the first attempt they found 19,679 bottles of wine hidden in a truck consignment containing boxes of vegetable oil, while in the second attempt, 2486 bottles of wine were found among a consignment of reels of metal ropes used in electricity.
One 25,000-ton wheat consignment was bought instead of a 17,000-ton consignment originally sought, they said.
The company is also authorised to import Australian live sheep and a consignment of 30,000 heads is expected to reach Bahrain on February 18, while other consignments will follow.
After a detailed scrutiny, ANF Teams picked up a Container No.PICU-1615231 of Popular Corporation as a suspicious consignment. Detail search revealed that Container was loaded with General Store items, including 1038 Tins of edible oil, out of which 24 Tins were heaving sealed packets of 57.6 Kgs Heroin.
She, along with her husband Eric, founded Back to the Rack Consignment, where folks can buy and sell quality items at a lower cost.
24 -- Sri Lanka has sent the second consignment of flood relief to Pakistan.
May 27 2010 -- The Hungarian Agricultural Office, Food and Feed Control Department has detected Salmonella Mbandaka in a consignment of linseed oilcake from Ukraine.