A person or company authorized to receive and sell goods sent to them by another party; similar to a consignee.
From consignate + -ary (relating to). Consignate comes from Latin consignare. This is an older, more formal term than consignee.
This word shows how English borrowed heavily from Italian and Spanish merchant vocabulary during the Renaissance trading era — it's basically the fancy version of 'consignee'!
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