Definitions for deliveries

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deliveries de·liv·er·y

Spelling: [dih-liv-uh-ree]

IPA: /dɪˈlɪv ə ri/

Deliveries is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 355 anagrams from letters in deliveries (deeeiilrsv).

Definitions for deliveries

noun

1. the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.
2. a giving up or handing over; surrender.
3. the utterance or enunciation of words.
4. vocal and bodily behavior during the presentation of a speech:
5. the act or manner of giving or sending forth:
6. the state of being delivered of or giving birth to a child; parturition.
7. something delivered:
8. Commerce. a shipment of goods from the seller to the buyer.
9. Law. a formal act performed to make a transfer of property legally effective:
10. Printing.. Also called delivery end. the part of a printing press where the paper emerges in printed form.
11. Archaic. release or rescue; liberation; deliverance.

Origin of deliveries

1400-50; late Middle English delyvere, delyvery Anglo-French delivrée, noun use of feminine past participle of delivrer to deliver, with suffix assimilated to

Examples for deliveries

These demands were all fulfilled as soon as the uncertainty of deliveries permitted.

It is not unusual to pass Indian and American cotton through three deliveries.

Such contracts for future deliveries are not only common but customary.

The deliveries depicted within Call the Midwife are bloody, breathtaking, and at times elegiac.

These deliveries were soon made and Cousin Charley had money to distribute.

We began to plan our first deliveries of medicine, water and first aid supplies.

A tiny fraction of $83 billion in liquor store revenue comes from deliveries.

Would his chum make the deliveries if he gave him a list of the customers?

The ground explodes and for us, the last troops left to finish out the war, we dodge the deliveries but understand the message.

The closure of the bridges meant the deliveries would have trouble reaching their destination.