on consignmentin a sentence
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Tell ya what: I'll take 'em on consignment like.
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on consignment = when a retailer has goods to show in the store, but not pay the supplier for the goods until they are sold
- One afternoon while McCandless was tending the book table at the Niland swap meet, somebody left a portable electric organ with Burres to sell on consignment.† (source)
- Part of Zach's job was going around to deliver fresh supplies of honey and candles to places that sold them on consignment.† (source)
- The crowded confusion of furniture gave the Count's little domain the look of a consignment shop in the Arbat.† (source)
- It had old chandeliers and mantels and pier mirrors (though none were original to the house), and Joe did manage to fill the place appealingly with what was left of his own furniture plus antiques borrowed from friends or taken on consignment from local antique shops.† (source)
- Maybe you can trade for a dress or get one on consignment.† (source)
- Anyhow Welty took the pieces on consignment and called the old lady and called the police.† (source)
- With the sheet blocking the back window, Liam had to rely on using the side mirror to navigate us down the road and up into the small back alley that divided the Waffle House from an abandoned jewelry consignment store.† (source)
- They'd finally found an old Zegna suit in a consignment shop called Love Saves the Day that mostly sold glitter platform boots and sixties Pucci scarves.† (source)
- The dining-room table had been sent to a consignment shop and the kitchen table stood in its place, ridiculously small and homely, also to go with Red.† (source)
- Everything's on consignment.'† (source)
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- Not that her background was so bad, but her father had died when she was young, so that her mother had had to support the family by selling jewelry; if some rich woman had a few pieces she'd tired of, Janis's mother would show them around to other women, on consignment.† (source)
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