CONSIGNEE • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Consignee

... due time, and were kindly received by Mr. Miller, the consignee of the vessel, who invited us to make his house our home until we could obtain a suitable residence. On landing, the hot moist mouldy air, which seemed to strike from the ground and walls, reminded me of the atmosphere ...

— The Naturalist on the River Amazons • Henry Walter Bates

... United States, there to be examined by a revenue officer and their contents verified; but in practice the car, if the seal is found at the border to be intact, is passed to places not "ports" and is opened and unloaded by the consignee, no officer being present. The bill or manifest accompanying the merchandise and the unbroken seal on the car may furnish prima facie evidence that the amount and kind of merchandise named in the manifest and said to be contained in the car came from a port in the ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume IX. • Benjamin Harrison