Consignment vs. Parcel — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Consignment and Parcel
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Consignment
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.
Parcel
An object or collection of objects wrapped in paper in order to be carried or sent by post
A brown paper parcel
A parcel bomb
The lorry was carrying a large number of Royal Mail parcels
Consignment
A batch of goods destined for or delivered to someone
A consignment of drugs
Parcel
A quantity or amount of something, especially as dealt with in one commercial transaction
A parcel of shares
Consignment
The act of consigning.
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Parcel
Make (something) into a parcel by wrapping it
He parcelled up the goods and sent them back
Consignment
Something consigned.
Parcel
Wrap (rope) with strips of tarred canvas, before binding it with yarn as part of a traditional technique to reduce chafing.
Consignment
A collection of goods to be sent, in transit or having been sent.
Parcel
Something wrapped up or packaged; a package.
Consignment
The act of consigning.
Parcel
A plot of land, usually a division of a larger area.
Consignment
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.
Parcel
A quantity of merchandise offered for sale.
Consignment
The act of consigning; consignation.
Parcel
A group or company; a pack
"this youthful parcel of noble bachelors" (Shakespeare).
Consignment
The act of consigning or sending property to an agent or correspondent in another place, as for care, sale, etc.
Parcel
To divide into parts and distribute
Parceled out the land to their three children.
Consignment
That which is consigned; the goods or commodities sent or addressed to a consignee at one time or by one conveyance.
To increase your consignments of this valuable branch of national commerce.
Parcel
To make into a parcel; package.
Consignment
The writing by which anything is consigned.
Parcel
(Nautical) To wind protective strips of canvas around (rope).
Consignment
Goods carried by a large vehicle
Parcel
A package wrapped for shipment.
I saw a brown paper parcel on my doorstep.
Consignment
The official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
Parcel
An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
Consignment
The delivery of goods for sale or disposal
Parcel
An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
Parcel
A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
I own a small parcel of land between the refinery and the fish cannery.
Parcel
(obsolete) A group of birds.
Parcel
An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
Parcel
A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
Parcel
A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
A certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.
Parcel
To wrap something up into the form of a package.
Parcel
To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.
Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
Parcel
To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with out or into.
Parcel
To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
Parcel
(obsolete) Part or half; in part; partially.
Parcel
A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
Two parcels of the white of an egg.
The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government.
Parcel
A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.
Parcel
An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
This youthful parcelOf noble bachelors stand at my disposing.
Parcel
A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet.
'Tis like a parcel sent you by the stage.
Parcel
To divide and distribute by parts or portions; - often with out or into.
These ghostly kings would parcel out my power.
The broad woodland parceled into farms.
Parcel
To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
That mine own servant shouldParcel the sum of my disgraces byAddition of his envy.
Parcel
To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc.
Parcel
Part or half; in part; partially.
The worthy dame was parcel-blind.
One that . . . was parcel-bearded [partially bearded].
Parcel
A wrapped container
Parcel
The result of parcelling out or sharing;
Death gets more than its share of attention from theologicans
Parcel
An extended area of land
Parcel
A collection of things wrapped or boxed together
Parcel
Divide into parts;
The developers parceled the land
Parcel
Cover with strips of canvas;
Parcel rope
Parcel
Make into a wrapped container
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