A person or company who receives goods shipped by another party; someone goods are entrusted to for sale or safekeeping.
From consign + -ee (suffix indicating the recipient of an action). Follows the English pattern of -ee words (employee, payee, lessee).
The -ee suffix is brilliant shorthand: the consignor sends goods, and the consignee receives them — one letter changes the perspective from giver to receiver!
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