Consignor vs. Consignee
These two words-consignor and consignee-are not commonly used words, but you definitely want to get them correct if you do find occasion to use them. Both have to do with a transaction involving the transport of goods.
Consign is a verb meaning to deliver or send for selling or to commit to someone or to a location. When we talk about selling items in a consignment store, we are committing or sending items to be sold for us by someone else. A consignor is the person who sells goods or sends the goods. The consignee is the person to whom the goods are transferred, and sometimes this person is the actual buyer of the goods and sometimes not.
1. When my father's company purchases items from oversees, he relies on the consignors in the agreement to be honest about the goods they are shipping.
2. The consignee inspected the shipment of potatoes before signing off that he had received them.
3. My mom was a consigner when she took several dresses to a consignment shop, and the consignee, or the owner of the shop, agreed to give her a certain percentage of the sales price.
While these words can get confusing because transactions involving the sale and transport of goods can be tricky, just think through who owns the goods. The person who owns the goods and puts them up for sale is the consignor. The person who receives the goods-either to sell them or to purchase them him/herself-is the consignee.
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