Consign vs Reconcile - What's the difference?
consign | reconcile |
(business) To transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping.
To entrust to the care of another.
* Alexander Pope
To send to a final destination.
* Atterbury
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To assign; to devote; to set apart.
* Dryden
To stamp or impress; to affect.
* Jeremy Taylor
To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.
To make things compatible or consistent.
* Alexander Pope
* John Locke
To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.
As verbs the difference between consign and reconcile
is that consign is (business) to transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping while reconcile is to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.consign
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Verb
(en verb)- Atrides, parting for the Trojan war, / Consigned the youthful consort to his care.
- to consign the body to the grave
- At the day of general account, good men are to be consigned over to another state.
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- The French commander consigned it to the use for which it was intended by the donor.
- Consign my spirit with great fear.
Derived terms
* consignation * consignee * consigner * consignment * consignorUsage notes
See usage note for commit.Anagrams
*reconcile
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(reconciliation)Verb
(reconcil)- to reconcile people who have quarrelled
- to reconcile differences
- Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, / Considered singly, or beheld too near; / Which, but proportioned to their light or place, / Due distance reconciles to form and grace.
- The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.