Consignment vs. Freight — What's the Difference?

Consignment involves selling one's personal goods (clothing, furniture, etc.) through a third-party vendor such as a consignment store or online thrift store. The owner of the goods pays the third-party a portion of the sale for facilitating the sale.

Goods transported in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft

A batch of goods destined for or delivered to someone

A freight train

The act of consigning.

A load or burden

Something consigned.

Transport (goods) in bulk by truck, train, ship, or aircraft

A collection of goods to be sent, in transit or having been sent.

Be laden or burdened with

The act of consigning.

Goods carried by a vessel or vehicle, especially by a commercial carrier; cargo.

The sale of one's own goods (clothing, furniture, etc.) through a third-party vendor, in exchange for a portion of the sale price, and with the consigner retaining ownership of the goods until they are sold or abandoned.

A burden; a load.

The act of consigning; consignation.

Commercial transportation of goods.

The act of consigning or sending property to an agent or correspondent in another place, as for care, sale, etc.

The charge for transporting goods. Also called freightage.

That which is consigned; the goods or commodities sent or addressed to a consignee at one time or by one conveyance.

A railway train carrying goods only.

The writing by which anything is consigned.

To convey commercially as cargo.

Goods carried by a large vehicle

To load with goods to be transported.

The official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)

To imbue with a specified element or elements

The delivery of goods for sale or disposal

(uncountable) The transportation of goods (originally by water; now also by land); also, the hiring of a vehicle or vessel for such transportation.

(uncountable) Goods or items in transport; cargo, luggage.

(countable) Payment for transportation.

(figuratively)

(countable) A burden, a load.

Cultural or emotional associations.

(transitive)

To load (a vehicle or vessel) with freight (cargo); also, to hire or rent out (a vehicle or vessel) to carry cargo or passengers.

To transport (goods).

(by extension) To load or store (goods, etc.).

(figuratively) To carry (something) as if it is a burden or load.

Chiefly followed by up: to carry as part of a cargo.

(obsolete) Freighted; laden.

That with which anything is fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight.

The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.

Freight transportation, or freight line.

Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car.

To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car.

Goods carried by a large vehicle

Transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates

The charge for transporting something by common carrier;

Transport commercially as cargo

Load with goods for transportation