Consign
verb
To give or transfer something to someone for them to take care of.
Anne consigned her old furniture to an auction house.
Often appears as...
- consign to oblivion
- consign to history
verb
To send goods by a transporter.
A business consigned a shipment of clothing to a retailer.
Often appears as...
- consign goods
- consign shipment
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Technical
verb
To put someone or something in a place they cannot easily leave.
He was consigned to a life of loneliness after his breakup.
Often appears as...
- consign to loneliness
- consign to oblivion
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To give or transfer something to someone for them to take care of.
Anne consigned her old furniture to an auction house.
Often appears as...
- consign to oblivion
- consign to history
verb
To send goods by a transporter.
A business consigned a shipment of clothing to a retailer.
Often appears as...
- consign goods
- consign shipment
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To put someone or something in a place they cannot easily leave.
He was consigned to a life of loneliness after his breakup.
Often appears as...
- consign to loneliness
- consign to oblivion
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Trust Implication
Using 'consign' suggests you trust the caregiver with your belongings or responsibilities.
She consigned her plants to her neighbor before leaving for vacation.
Pro Tip 2/3Long-term Care
'Consign' often implies that the item will be under someone else's care for a lengthy period.
The museum consigned the ancient artifacts to the expert's care.
Pro Tip 3/3Ownership Transfer
The act of consigning may lead to a transfer of ownership or public sale.
They consigned their grandfather's watch to the auction.
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What is a gift economy?...
This holiday season, people around the world will give and receive presents. You might even get a knitted sweater from an aunt. But what if instead of saying "thanks" before consigning it to the closet, the polite response expected from you
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Alok Sharma: Why COP26...
We need them to set targets to reduce emissions, to make this the COP that consigns coal power to history where it belongs. The COP that signals the end of polluting vehicles, the COP that calls time on deforestation.
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Ron Eglash: The fractals...
This made no sense at all, so they consigned these curves to the back of the math books. They said these are pathological curves, and we don't have to discuss them. And that worked for a hundred years.
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Barry Schwartz: Our loss...
There is no better way to show people that you're not serious than to tie up everything you have to say about ethics into a little package with a bow and consign it to the margins as an ethics course.
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Norman Spack: How I help...
which means they were consigning them to an adult body no matter what happened, even if they tested them well. Jackie, on top of it, was, by virtue of skeletal markings, destined to be six feet five.
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Measuring immeasurable...
going to be able to understand these diseases and learn about them not for curiosity not for publication not for profit but to take them apart one by one and consign into the history books thank you
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Tim Jackson: An economic...
But before we consign ourselves to despair, maybe we should just go back and say, "Did we get this right? Is this really how people are? Is this really how economies behave?" And almost straightaway
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“Maybe Time Doesn’t Even...
time than any one clock and more robustly I've never liked to carry watches I I don't really want the to consign my concept of time to the measurement to obsessed with measurement they can lose
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Our loss of wisdom -...
is no better way to show people that you're not serious than to tie up everything you have to say about ethics into a little package with a bow and consign it to the margins as an ethics
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Militant atheism PIPE...
while at the same time, consigning the non-religious to political oblivion. This secular non-religious vote, if properly mobilized, is nine times as numerous as the Jewish vote.
Video examples
What is a gift economy?...
This holiday season, people around the world will give and receive presents. You might even get a knitted sweater from an aunt. But what if instead of saying "thanks" before consigning it to the closet, the polite response expected from you
Video examples
Alok Sharma: Why COP26...
We need them to set targets to reduce emissions, to make this the COP that consigns coal power to history where it belongs. The COP that signals the end of polluting vehicles, the COP that calls time on deforestation.
Video examples
Ron Eglash: The fractals...
This made no sense at all, so they consigned these curves to the back of the math books. They said these are pathological curves, and we don't have to discuss them. And that worked for a hundred years.
Video examples
Barry Schwartz: Our loss...
There is no better way to show people that you're not serious than to tie up everything you have to say about ethics into a little package with a bow and consign it to the margins as an ethics course.
Video examples
Norman Spack: How I help...
which means they were consigning them to an adult body no matter what happened, even if they tested them well. Jackie, on top of it, was, by virtue of skeletal markings, destined to be six feet five.
Video examples
Measuring immeasurable...
going to be able to understand these diseases and learn about them not for curiosity not for publication not for profit but to take them apart one by one and consign into the history books thank you
Video examples
Tim Jackson: An economic...
But before we consign ourselves to despair, maybe we should just go back and say, "Did we get this right? Is this really how people are? Is this really how economies behave?" And almost straightaway
Video examples
“Maybe Time Doesn’t Even...
time than any one clock and more robustly I've never liked to carry watches I I don't really want the to consign my concept of time to the measurement to obsessed with measurement they can lose
Video examples
Our loss of wisdom -...
is no better way to show people that you're not serious than to tie up everything you have to say about ethics into a little package with a bow and consign it to the margins as an ethics
Video examples
Militant atheism PIPE...
while at the same time, consigning the non-religious to political oblivion. This secular non-religious vote, if properly mobilized, is nine times as numerous as the Jewish vote.
Example 1 of 10
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Tina Brown
American Editor
One phrase I would dearly like to consign to the can is 'Out of the Box.' The thinking that told us we should invade Iraq and that house prices never decline may have been out of the box, but it put us into the ditch. We have been badly misled by people who persuaded us that they understood things we didn't.
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Sam Harris
American Author
It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.
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Jonathan Kozol
American Writer
So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun and flee and view with fear, I am afraid that educational denial, medical and economic devastation, and aesthetic degradation will be inevitable.
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Esther McVey
British Politician
Labour parades compassion for the poor, but it practised casual cruelty by consigning millions to benefits. Yet there's nothing compassionate about being trapped on benefits, being robbed of the dignity of work, and shut out from the choices that brings.
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Paul Hawken
American Environmentalist
It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission and the office worker who processes medical insurance claims to work with pride and efficiency, but it's not easy to maintain that attitude.
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Lee Siegel
American Critic
Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism of our time, a criticism that takes in various arts all at once.
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Alfred Enoch
English Actor
I think dead humans rising from their graves with little to no sense of who they were in their past lives to mindlessly roam the earth consigning others to the same fate would be a bit depressing.
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Andrea Leadsom
British Politician
A century after some women first got the vote, we are upping the pressure for change to consign Parliament's legacy of inequality in the past.
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Winnie Byanyima
Ugandan Politician
The proud fight against colonialism is one that should be consigned to history.
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Paulo Coelho
Brazilian Novelist
Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
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Tina Brown
American Editor
One phrase I would dearly like to consign to the can is 'Out of the Box.' The thinking that told us we should invade Iraq and that house prices never decline may have been out of the box, but it put us into the ditch. We have been badly misled by people who persuaded us that they understood things we didn't.
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Sam Harris
American Author
It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.
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Jonathan Kozol
American Writer
So long as the most vulnerable people in our population are consigned to places that the rest of us will always shun and flee and view with fear, I am afraid that educational denial, medical and economic devastation, and aesthetic degradation will be inevitable.
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Esther McVey
British Politician
Labour parades compassion for the poor, but it practised casual cruelty by consigning millions to benefits. Yet there's nothing compassionate about being trapped on benefits, being robbed of the dignity of work, and shut out from the choices that brings.
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Paul Hawken
American Environmentalist
It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission and the office worker who processes medical insurance claims to work with pride and efficiency, but it's not easy to maintain that attitude.
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Lee Siegel
American Critic
Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism of our time, a criticism that takes in various arts all at once.
Quote examples
Alfred Enoch
English Actor
I think dead humans rising from their graves with little to no sense of who they were in their past lives to mindlessly roam the earth consigning others to the same fate would be a bit depressing.
Quote examples
Andrea Leadsom
British Politician
A century after some women first got the vote, we are upping the pressure for change to consign Parliament's legacy of inequality in the past.
Quote examples
Winnie Byanyima
Ugandan Politician
The proud fight against colonialism is one that should be consigned to history.
Quote examples
Paulo Coelho
Brazilian Novelist
Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
Example 1 of 10
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