consignment

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Recent Examples of consignment Craig Mallery, a consignment agent at Mecum Auctions, said about 300 Cyclones were built in St. Paul. David Knutson, Twin Cities, 3 Feb. 2025 She had been announced as an ambassador of the consignment company a few months earlier. Raven Brunner, People.com, 2 Feb. 2025 Go deeper: Popular vintage and consignment shop Thrift Pony relocating to Camp North End Locker Room CLT Location: 4090 Raleigh St. What to expect: Vintage sports apparel, particularly North Carolina sports apparel from the 80s and 90s, as Axios' Alexis Clinton reported. Ashley Mahoney, Axios, 28 Jan. 2025 Hauser & Wirth have an outpost here, and Koller Auctions, the leading Swiss auction house accepts consignments at any time. Alexandra Cheney, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for consignment
Recent Examples of Synonyms for consignment
Noun
  • Dex gives him mouth-to-mouth to revive him and then … leaves him on the cargo ship.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
  • When the Western military left, islanders created makeshift imitations of the infrastructure — control towers built from bamboo, a plane carved from wood — in the hope that this ritual would cause more cargo to arrive.
    Laura Regensdorf Katharine Sohn Laura Bannister Osman Can Yerebakan Shannon Adducci, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • On the supply chain front, President Donald Trump ’s tariff policies led companies to pull forward shipments into the U.S. , and some of those goods may end up in TJX’s hands if retailers need to offload them.
    Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Trump released that shipment shortly after returning to office.
    Meg Kelly, arkansasonline.com, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Odyssey is a private logistics solutions provider with annual revenue of $1 billion and a freight network that exceeds $3 billion globally, according to the company.
    Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Uber's freight business, which has struggled to generate profitability, accounts for the remaining share of revenue.
    GuruFocus, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • President Trump’s decision to scale back U.S. government mandates, which would have forced manufacturers to make and sell more EVs, has been scaled back.
    Neil Winton, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
  • But sweeping mandates to eliminate all DEI programs would undercut efforts to increase fairness and, perhaps more importantly, deny organizations the opportunity to hire the best and the brightest.
    Gregory D. Squires, Baltimore Sun, 22 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The first phase of the Pavilion renovation, addressing backstage infrastructure such as artist facilities and loading areas, is already underway, according to comments and photographs provided by Ravinia President and CEO Jeff Haydon.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2025
  • And Hyundai designed the cargo area to sit lower than the average SUV for easier loading and unloading.
    Scotty Reiss, Parents, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • This year’s award went to the River Roads Festival in Easthampton, Mass. The Spirit of Folk Awards are presented to people and organizations actively involved in the promotion and preservation of folk music.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The brand is currently running a special promotion across its current sale section—use the code EXTRA at checkout to score an additional 50 percent off select items.
    Aamina Inayat Khan, StyleCaster, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • This is because teams test with different fuel loads and tire compounds, and some might even engage in sandbagging—a tactic where drivers deliberately lap slower to keep their true pace and potential under wraps to divert attention from certain features on the car or dodge unnecessary hype.
    Yara Elshebiny, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Craving more assists from Tyler McGhie to balance the load?
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Mullen is given wide, dictator-like powers that Congress and the president were seemingly overjoyed to hand over to the commission.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The commission agreed to increase the numbers of mandatory pit stops in the Race.
    Kanzah Maktoum, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025

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“Consignment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/consignment. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.

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