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Another word for consign

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Verb

  1. To put in the charge of another for care, use, or performance

  2. To place officially in confinement

  3. To cause (something) to be conveyed to a destination

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Another word for consign

Verb

  1. To give over or deliver

  2. To put in the charge of

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Sentence Examples

  • Her correspondence in cipher from thence with her English agents abroad, intercepted by Walsingham and deciphered by his secretary, gave eager encouragement to the design for a Spanish invasion of England Under the prince of Parma, - an enterprise in which she would do her utmost to make her son take part, and in case of his refusal would induce the Catholic nobles of Scotland to betray him into the hands of Philip, from whose tutelage he should be released only on her demand, or if after her death he should wish to return, nor then unless he had become a Catholic. But even these patriotic and maternal schemes to consign her child and re-consign the kingdom to the keeping of the Inquisition, incarnate in the widower of Mary Tudor, were superseded by the attraction of a conspiracy against the throne and life of Elizabeth.

  • The Environment Agency charges for the consignment notes to be used to consign special waste.

  • consign anything to Room 101, what would it be and why?

  • No, I would n't consign piste skiing to Room 101 - just don't ask me to partake.

  • consign that sum of money by 11 January 2006.

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