The phrase "as consignment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to shipping, logistics, or sales, where goods are sent to a retailer or agent to sell on behalf of the owner.
Example: "The goods were sent as consignment to the local store, where they will be sold to customers."
Alternatives: "on consignment" or "in consignment".
To procure those $5,000 items, Mr. Clarke spends most of his time appraising estates, hoping to get them as consignments.
In March Bristol-Myers Squibb restated $2.5 billion in sales, and $900 million in earnings, on the heels of an SEC investigation, charging that for 2001 and most of 2002 the company had discounted inventory to two of its largest wholesalers to the point that sales qualified as consignments.
Reports of ivory seizures are a regular occurrence in Mombasa, Kenya's largest port, where just this month large shipments of ivory have been discovered, in one case disguised as a haul of sun-dried fish, and in another as a consignment of 240 bags of groundnuts.
Another witness, Abu Fouad, claimed the attack took place as a consignment of fuel arrived and crowds packed the station.
The Skyscraper Museum had hoped to borrow the bowl from the Gilbert family, just as the consignment to Skinner was under way.
He also insisted the gallery buy the work and resell it to Mr. Howard, rather than just act as a consignment broker.
A large barn on the property is used for storage, while another, 2,200-square-foot 2,200-square-foot 2,200-square-footcommercialt store.
Bernhardt is said then to have travelled by ship to Beirut, where arrangements were made to pack the weapons into a shipping container labelled as a consignment of ceramic floor tiles.
He was the longest serving member of the pottery, starting as a consignment packer for deliveries, and went on to be one of the last three potters, along with Joanna Wason and Amanda Brier, to remain there until its closure in 2005.
