Definitions for delivery

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delivery de·liv·er·y

Spelling: [dih-liv-uh-ree]

IPA: /dɪˈlɪv ə ri/

Delivery is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 206 anagrams from letters in delivery (deeilrvy).

Definitions for delivery

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 delivery

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 delivery

The work of the individual endured only as long as its delivery lasted.

Of course not—the delivery of vaccine from manufacturer to arm is only part of the problem for any vaccination program.

The delivery of ewes and wethers is timed by individual arrangement.

When he accepted the prize, he delivered a speech that has been unfairly ignored because his delivery was so muted.

The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.

The purchaser then brought, or sent, an order on board the ship, for the delivery of the opium.

Should capability delivery experience additional changes, this estimate will be revised appropriately.

It must not be supposed that this spring day in the spring places had reformed his manner of delivery.

Fewer women are shackled during labor and delivery (PDF), though this still occurs.

Both countries had coordinated with each other from the beginning, and Reagan himself had authorized the August 1985 delivery.