consignee

Roget category 758

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.6. General intersocial volition
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#758. Consignee

noun

consignee, trustee, nominee, committee.
agent, delegate — commissary, commissioner — emissary, envoy, commissionaire [Fr.] — messenger etc. 534.
diplomatist, diplomat, diplomate, corps diplomatique [Fr.], embassy — ambassador, embassador^† — representative, resident, consul, legate, nuncio, internuncio^†, charge d'affaires [Fr.], attache.
vicegerent etc. (deputy) 759 — plenipotentiary.
functionary, placeman^†, curator — treasurer etc. 801 — factor, bailiff, clerk, secretary, attorney, advocate, solicitor, proctor, broker, underwriter, commission agent, auctioneer, one's man of business — factotum etc. (director) 694 — caretaker — dalal^†, dubash^†, garnishee, gomashta^†.
negotiator, go-between — middleman — under agent, employe — servant etc. 746 — referee, arbitrator etc. (judge) 967.
traveler, bagman, commis-voyageur [Fr.], touter^†, commercial traveler, drummer [U.S.], traveling man.
newspaper correspondent, own correspondent, special correspondent.

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