"consignments" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It means the act of transferring something to another person for a particular purpose, for example for selling. Example sentence: The store offered me a consignment of rare antiques to sell in my gallery.
Armstrong reported that "those concerned are exercising vigilance for any indications of movements of NUM staff to foreign destinations which might be for the purpose of collecting consignments of notes".
"Ascroft, it appears, made the contacts to sell the haul on, while Price and others travelled the country to target hauliers to steal the vehicles and the consignments.
The number of cases has grown rapidly since 2003, but fewer fake articles were confiscated last year than in 2006 perhaps because internet sales have boosted the number of small consignments.
At a stroke that would undercut a major source of corruption and crime (both on land and at sea) that spills into neighbouring countries, the destination for smuggled consignments of cheap Nigerian fuel.
Consignments of guns and machetes are said to have arrived in Nairobi slums.
They look optimistically to the future since sanctions allow Iraq to export nothing but oil, and to import only consignments agreed to by the United Nations.The oil-for-food programme runs in six-month cycles.
The merchants had consignments, and the brokers in Coleman street and Basinghall street had to sell to the amount of 5,353,313l., instead of 1,221,950l.
This adequately covers the losses on consignments that are caught by Indian or Pakistani customs patrols, or which have to be dumped into the Indian Ocean if arrest seems imminent.
He began running drugs as a teenager, picking up consignments of marijuana and cocaine near the border with Mexico and selling them around Texas.With such a background, it is perhaps not surprising that Mr Amaya was arrested after pistol-whipping a girlfriend and is today, at 28, about to finish a long sentence for aggravated assault.
Food must he lifted as far as possible into the countryside, in small consignments, so as not to attract great clusters of refugees; and it must be kept as far as possible out of the hands of government agents, who will eat it themselves, or use it as a political lever, if they can.
It is, in effect, auctioning its own property.Phillips's strategy of generously underwriting first-rate sales has won it this year's most coveted consignments.
