consign someone/something to something

consign | American Dictionary

consign
verb[ T ]
us/kənˈsɑɪn/
to give or send, or to put someone in an unpleasant place or situation:
She refused to consign her children to a life of poverty.

consign | Business English

consign
verb[ T ]
 COMMERCEuk /kənˈsaɪn/us
to send goods or documents to a person or company:
consign sth to sbThe goods will be consigned to you by air freight.
to give something to an auctioneer and ask them to sell it for you:
Most items that you consign to us for sale will be illustrated in our online catalogue.

Examples of consign

consign
The political inference was that if all gender differentiation was historically contingent it could be consigned to a remote, irrecoverable past.
The work is suitable for a general audience, as equations have been consigned to a comprehensive mathematical appendix.
By 1985, 58.8 % of the tuna catch was consigned to domestic markets.
The welfare consensus was consigned to its pauper's grave, seemingly financially and ideologically bankrupt.
The compound noun *sigel-rad 'sun' can thus be consigned to whatever place ghost-words go to retire.
Indeed, the author consigns this information to the endnotes (337, note 52).
Individual style may be consigned to the psychological blackbox of quirk and creativity, but collective style demands a more accessible, structural explanation.
Yet that doesn't mean that their duet need be consigned to the ' second-hand bin' of history.
However, if we simply follow current trends there is likely to be a lag time that will always consign us to a second division.
There is too much restatement of material that can be found elsewhere or at least could be consigned to appendices.
The book would be more appealing if most of the tables were consigned to the appendix or omitted altogether.
For the greed and neediness, the divisiveness, for the communities consigned to the underclass.
She is consigned to music in the very same way as a patient is to analysis.
Such drama has been consigned to the realm of theatrical artefacts, held up as epitomes of 'culture', or suitable subjects for academic study.
Again the indigenous peoples of the region are consigned to an anachronistic space outside of the temporality of economic and social development.
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