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 Definitions of delivery  [ɪˈlɪv ə ri]  

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Definition of 'delivery' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) delivery
the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.

2.  delivery
a giving up or handing over; surrender.

3.  delivery
the utterance or enunciation of words.

4.  delivery
vocal and bodily behavior during the presentation of a speech:
a speaker's fine delivery.

5.  delivery
the act or manner of giving or sending forth:
the pitcher's fine delivery of the ball.

6.  delivery
the state of being delivered of or giving birth to a child; parturition.

7.  delivery
something delivered:
The delivery is late today.

8.  delivery
a shipment of goods from the seller to the buyer.

9.  delivery
Archaic. release or rescue; liberation; deliverance.

Etymology:  (1400–50; AF delivrée, n. use of fem. ptp. of delivrer to deliver)

Definition of 'delivery' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) delivery, bringing
the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)
"his reluctant delivery of bad news"

2. (noun) delivery
the event of giving birth
"she had a difficult delivery"

3. (noun) manner of speaking, speech, delivery
your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
"his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"

4. (noun) delivery, livery, legal transfer
the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another

5. (noun) pitch, delivery
(baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter

6. (noun) rescue, deliverance, delivery, saving
recovery or preservation from loss or danger
"work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives"

7. (noun) delivery, obstetrical delivery
the act of delivering a child


Definition of 'delivery' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) delivery
the action or process of delivering sth
Delivery was slow.; a truck that makes hundreds of deliveries a day; the delivery of services

2.  delivery
the period during which a woman gives birth
an easy/difficult delivery; the delivery room


Definition of 'delivery' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) delivery
the act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon

2. (noun) delivery
the act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters

3. (noun) delivery
the act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery

4. (noun) delivery
the act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes

5. (noun) delivery
the act of exerting one's strength or limbs

6. (noun) delivery
the act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery


Translation of 'delivery' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: (an act of) handing over (letters, parcels etc)
There are two parcel deliveries a week.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: aflewering, lewering Arabic flag Arabic: تَسْليم Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: доставка
Brazilian flag Brazilian: entrega Czech flag Czech: dodávka, doručení German flag German: die Lieferung
Danish flag Danish: levering; udbringning Greek flag Greek: παράδοση (π.χ. γράμματος) Spanish flag Spanish: entrega, reparto
Estonian flag Estonian: kättetoimetamine Farsi flag Farsi: تحویل؛ ارائه Finnish flag Finnish: toimitus
French flag French: livraison Hebrew flag Hebrew: מְסִירָה Hindi flag Hindi: प्रदत्त
Croatian flag Croatian: dostava, isporuka Hungarian flag Hungarian: átadás, kézbesítés Indonesian flag Indonesian: pengiriman
Icelandic flag Icelandic: útburður Italian flag Italian: consegna Japanese flag Japanese: 配達
Korean flag Korean: 배달 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: pristatymas Latvian flag Latvian: (preču) piegāde; (pasta)
Malay flag Malay: penghantaran Dutch flag Dutch: bestelling Norwegian flag Norwegian: (av)levering, utbringing
Polish flag Polish: dostawa Persian flag Persian: تحویل؛ ارائه Pashto flag Pashto: ازادونه، سپارنه، اپرادونه
Portuguese flag Portuguese: entrega Romanian flag Romanian: livrare Russian flag Russian: доставка
Slovak flag Slovak: dodávka Slovenian flag Slovenian: dostava Serbian flag Serbian: dostava
Swedish flag Swedish: leverans,överlämnande, ut Thai flag Thai: การส่ง Turkish flag Turkish: teslimat, dağıtım
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 傳送 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: доставляння; відправлення Urdu flag Urdu: خطوط وغیرہ کی باقاعدہ تقس
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: sự giao thư, hàng Chinese flag Chinese: 传送

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