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on consignment
Turning over goods for an agent to sell, with the provision that payment is made only on completed sales and that unsold goods may be returned to the consignor. For example, This secondhand shop accepts items of clothing on consignment. [c. 1700]
Example Sentences
Parra also received fentanyl on consignment from Salazar for further distribution, authorities allege.
Spencer struck a deal for 10,000 square feet and agreed to sell some Designers View items on consignment.
He pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud for using clients’ funds to finance his lavish lifestyle and running a Ponzi-like scheme, taking timepieces that clients had asked him to sell on consignment and giving them to other customers who’d paid him to buy watches for them, prosecutors said.
Nubia Reyes and Grecia Galecio had taken strawberries on consignment from a nearby broker and needed to sell them.
The businessman collected the luxury watches from customers, promising them that he would sell the watches on consignment and take no more than a 5 percent fee, the authorities said.
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