The act of consigning goods; the delivery of merchandise to an agent for sale.
From consign + -ation (noun suffix creating an action noun). Follows the pattern of many Latin-derived English words forming abstract nouns.
In the world of international trade, 'consignation' was the official term for the whole business arrangement — today we'd just say 'consignment', which is shorter and simpler.
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