(1) In this Article, unless the context otherwise requires:

     (a) "Bailee" means the person who by a warehouse receipt, bill of lading, or other document of title acknowledges possession of goods and contracts to deliver them.

     (b) "Consignee" means the person named in a bill to whom or to whose order the bill promises delivery.

     (c) "Consignor" means the person named in a bill as the person from whom the goods have been received for shipment.

     (d) "Delivery order" means a written order to deliver goods directed to a warehouse operator, carrier, or other person who in the ordinary course of business issues warehouse receipts or bills of lading.

     (e) "Document" means document of title as defined in the general definitions in Article 1 (RCW 62A.1-201).

     (f) "Goods" means all things which are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract of storage or transportation.

     (g) "Issuer" means a bailee who issues a document except that in relation to an unaccepted delivery order it means the person who orders the possessor of goods to deliver. Issuer includes any person for whom an agent or employee purports to act in issuing a document if the agent or employee has real or apparent authority to issue documents, notwithstanding that the issuer received no goods or that the goods were misdescribed or that in any other respect the agent or employee violated his or her instructions.

     (h) "Warehouse operator" is a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire.

     (2) Other definitions applying to this Article or to specified Parts thereof, and the sections in which they appear are:

     "Duly negotiate." RCW 62A.7-501.

     "Person entitled under the document." RCW 62A.7-403(4).

     (3) Definitions in other Articles applying to this Article and the sections in which they appear are:

     "Contract for sale." RCW 62A.2-106.

     "Overseas." RCW 62A.2-323.

     "Receipt" of goods. RCW 62A.2-103.

     (4) In addition Article 1 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this Article.

[2011 c 336 § 825; 1965 ex.s. c 157 § 7-102. Cf. former RCW sections: (i) RCW 22.04.585(1); 1913 c 99 § 58; RRS § 3644; formerly RCW 22.04.010. (ii) RCW 63.04.755(1); 1925 ex.s. c 142 § 76; RRS § 5836-76; formerly RCW 63.04.010. (iii) RCW 81.32.011; 1961 c 14 § 81.32.011; prior: 1915 c 159 § 1; RRS § 3647; formerly RCW 81.32.020. (iv) RCW 81.32.531(1); 1961 c 14 § 81.32.531; prior: 1915 c 159 § 53; RRS § 3699; formerly RCW 81.32.010, part.]