consign

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To hand something or someone over to another's care or keeping.

   She consigned the children to their grandmother for the weekend.

2. 2
   verb

   To send goods somewhere, usually for sale or transport.

   The factory consigned the furniture to a shop in the city.

3. 3
   verb

   To put someone or something into an unwanted or final state.

   The report was consigned to a drawer and never read again.

Borrowed from Middle French consigner or directly from Latin cōnsignō (“furnish with a seal”), from con- + signō (“mark, sign”).

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