单词 | deliverable |
释义 | deliverableadj.n. A. adj. 1. That can or may be delivered (in various senses of the verb). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > [adjective] > handing over or giving up to another > that may be bailablec1503 deliverable1646 consignable1808 society > travel > transport > [adjective] > delivered > able to be deliverable1646 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > [adjective] > utterance of vocal sound > utterable pronounceablec1570 slipper1589 pronunciable1649 enunciable1652 effable1668 vocable1861 deliverable1889 1646 W. Hughes tr. A. Horne Mirrour Justices i. v. 22 Those Officers who conceal people deliverable to prison, and doe not bring them to Judgement. 1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances I. 401 Ten thousand Pounds of good and deliverable Dutch made Starch. 1889 Macmillan's Mag. Mar. 270/2 So wild and shrill a cry of human anguish, that the like of it I could never imagine deliverable by human lips. 2002 N.Y. Times Mag. 15 Dec. 39/3 Deliverable weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a terror network or murderous dictator..constitute as grave a threat as can be imagined. 2. Law. That is to be delivered according to a legal agreement; due to a specified person. Cf. payable adj. ΚΠ 1743 Petition of Agnes Murray-Kynnynmound 5 The Child's own Half [of the Household-furniture]..should be presently deliverable to the Child without waiting Majority or Marriage. 1877 Act 40 & 41 Vict. c. 39 §5 Where the document..makes the goods deliverable to the bearer. 2008 Cambr. Law Jrnl. 67 245 The bill of lading was made out and deliverable immediately to the buyer, thus the seller had no commercial interest in the goods after shipment. B. n. Chiefly in plural. Something which may be delivered or provided; spec. a tangible result of a development process. ΚΠ 1929 N.Y. Times 10 Jan. 38/5 (advt.) Cost including deliverables. 1948 Jrnl. Marketing 12 450/2 Of the original mailing 955 solicitations were delivered... Of the deliverables, 185 families, or 19.4 per cent agreed to join the panel. 1988 ICL Techn. Jrnl. 6 163 The user is required to identify the ‘deliverables’ for each stage in the development life cycle, and state which V[erification] & V[alidation] activities are associated with each deliverable at each stage. 2002 P. Kotler et al. Marketing Moves ix. 156 Membership is defined by the deliverables that employees produce and the employees' fit with the company's strategy, values, and culture. Derivatives deliveraˈbility n. the quality or fact of being deliverable.Earliest as second element in non-deliverability (see quot. 1894). ΚΠ 1894 Chemist & Druggist 28 July 149/1 The copies of our Winter Issue returned to us by the postal authorities on account of non-deliverability could be counted on the fingers of two hands. 1897 F. M. Burdick Law Sales Personal Prop. i. 15 The Test of Deliverability won the approval of the South Carolina courts. 1956 Law & Contemp. Probl. 21 272 Irish political power lay in the deliverability of the Irish-Democratic vote. 2005 Alberta's Reserves 2004 & Supply/Demand Outlook 2005–14 (Alberta Energy & Utilities Board) v. 28 Commercial natural gas storage is used by the natural gas industry to provide short-term deliverability. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1646 |
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