英语词汇“delivery”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

A hospital is usually the best place for a safe delivery.
Ask your neighbor to take any deliveries while you are on vacation.
mail deliveries
Meg was recovering from a particularly complicated delivery.
Pizza Mondo offers free delivery.
She had a quick, easy delivery.
The actor gives his usual gruff delivery, meant to convince us he's honest.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

At first sight, indeed, every civilization looks rather like a railway goods yard, constantly receiving and dispatching miscellaneous deliveries.
Bob had driven into the delivery yard after satisfying the man on the gate that he was on official business.
Efficiency is also sought in accurate invoicing and supply, regular deliveries and good reporting on outstanding orders.
I mean, I was seventeen or eighteen and helping out in deliveries.
J., says cord prices are flat with last year at about $ 115 with delivery.
Or pay extra for special handling or private delivery services.
That is what we seek to do, rather than adopting a defeatist attitude to the delivery of health care.

Longman Language Activatorto have a baby► have a baby/have twins/have kittens etc

· Having a baby changes your life completely.· After my wife had the twins, we were struggling financially for a while.· Our dog had six puppies while we were away on vacation.

► give birth

to have a baby - use this especially to talk about the actual process of doing this: · Zelda was admitted to the hospital at one o'clock, and gave birth two hours later.give birth to a child/daughter etc: · When Pablo was three, his mother gave birth to a daughter.

► become a mother

to have a baby for the first time: · Rachel was looking forward to becoming a mother.become the mother of a son/twins etc: · Nine months later she became the mother of a son, who was named George.

► childbirth

the process of giving birth: · Most women have some kind of pain relief during childbirth.die in childbirth (=die while giving birth): · Samuel's mother died in childbirth, and he was brought up by his aunt.natural childbirth (=without drugs, medical operations etc): · Natural childbirth has become more popular over the last 20 years.

► labour

British /labor American the whole process of giving birth, from the time when the baby starts to be pushed out of its mother's body: · When Connie realized that her labor was starting, she quickly phoned both her husband and doctor.in labour: · Sara was in labor for sixteen hours with our first child.go into labour (=begin the process of giving birth): · One of the horses had gone into labour while the farmer was away.

► delivery

the process of giving birth, especially when the birth is helped by doctors and nurses: · A hospital is usually the best place for a safe delivery.· Meg was recovering from a particularly complicated delivery.

WORD SETS► Birth

afterbirth, nounantenatal, adjectiveartificial insemination, nounbaby blues, nounbarren, adjectivebarrier method, nounbear, verbbirth control, nounbreast-feed, verbbreech birth, nouncaesarean, nouncap, nounchildbearing, nounchildbirth, nounconceive, verbconfinement, nouncontraception, nouncontraction, nounC-section, noundeliver, verbdelivery, noundiaphragm, nounDutch cap, nounembryo, nounembryology, nouneugenics, nounfamily planning, nounfertility, nounfertility drug, nounfertilize, verbfetal, adjectivefetus, nounfoetal position, nounfoetus, nounfull-term, adjectivegestation, noungonad, nounincubator, nouninduce, verbinduction, nouninfant mortality rate, nouninfertile, adjectiveIUD, nounIVF, nounmaternal, adjectivematernity, nounmidwife, nounmidwifery, nounmilk, nounmiscarriage, nounmiscarry, verbmorning-after pill, nounmorning sickness, nounmother-to-be, nounmum-to-be, nounnatal, adjectivenatural, adjectivenatural childbirth, nounneuter, verbnurse, verbobstetrics, nounoral contraceptive, nounoviduct, nounovulate, verbovum, nounperinatal, adjectivepostnatal, adjectivepreemie, nounpregnancy, nounpregnant, adjectivepremature, adjectivepresentation, nounprocreate, verbproduce, verbquickening, nounreproduce, verbreproduction, nounreproductive, adjectiverhythm method, nounspay, verbsterile, adjectivesterilize, verbstillbirth, nounstillborn, adjectivestretch mark, nounsurrogate mother, nounswaddle, verbswaddling clothes, nountermination, nountest-tube baby, nountrimester, nounultrasound, nounumbilical cord, noununborn, adjectivewean, verbzygote, noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + delivery► free

(=you do not pay extra for it)· We offer free delivery anywhere in the UK.· Delivery is free for purchases over £20.

► special/express delivery

(=that delivers mail and packages very quickly)· A brown package arrived by special delivery.

► next-day delivery

(=happening on the next day)· You have to pay extra for next-day delivery.

► recorded delivery

British English (=when a record is kept of posting and safe delivery)· I’d better send my passport by recorded delivery.

► mail delivery

(also postal delivery British English)· The strike stopped mail deliveries to 20,000 homes and businesses.

► parcel delivery

British English (=a parcel that someone delivers to you)· I’m expecting a parcel delivery later today.

► milk/fuel/pizza etc delivery

· I gave the kids some money for a pizza delivery.

delivery + NOUN► a delivery date/time

· The normal delivery time is 7 – 10 days after you place your order.

► a delivery service

· We try to maintain a high standard of delivery service to our customers.

► a delivery charge

(=an amount of money you pay for delivery)· There’s no delivery charge on goods over £20.

► a delivery note

(=piece of paper showing the details of your order)· A delivery note is sent along with the goods.

► a delivery truck

(also delivery van British English)· Just then a delivery truck stopped outside.

► a delivery man

(=man who delivers goods to people)· He got a job as a delivery man for a hardware store.

verbs► do a delivery

· We usually do the deliveries in the morning.

► make a delivery

· I’m afraid we don’t make deliveries on Saturdays.

► offer delivery

· We offer free, next-day delivery on all orders.

► have a delivery

· We've just had a delivery of tiles from Italy.

► accept/receive a delivery

· Someone must be at home to accept the delivery.

► take delivery of something

· The airline has just taken delivery of three new passenger jets.

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a delivery charge

· How much is the store’s delivery charge?

► the delivery date

(=a date on which goods will be delivered)· The delivery date should be around 23rd August.

► a delivery driver

(=delivering goods to a place)· He’s a delivery driver for a pizza takeaway restaurant.

► pick-up/fork-lift/delivery etc truck

(=large vehicles used for particular purposes)

His car was taken away on the back of a breakdown truck.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► late

· They were awarded damages for this loss of ordinary business which arose naturally from the late delivery.· Boeing blamed late aircraft deliveries, snarled assembly lines and shortages of parts and skilled labor for the loss.· S claimed payment for the nodes, and B counterclaimed damages for late delivery.· B was therefore entitled to no damages for late delivery, and S was not entitled to contract payment.· Mr. Austin Mitchell With the Government, it is more a question of the late delivery of policies.· On the day, it's who handles any emergencies that crop up like blown fuses and late deliveries.· There are stiff penalty clauses for late delivery.· Of course, if delivery is late the buyer may accept late delivery thereby waiving his right to treat the contract as repudiated.

► special

· A brown paper parcel arrived by special delivery.· Think instead of five hundred pounds - in cash - sent to you by special delivery every week.· Perhaps the birds are no more sinister than storks with a special delivery.· And that followed his special delivery at White Hart Lane last month, when he netted twice in a 2-0 Coventry win.· And, special delivery: The postman's bride ... two and a half years late.· Many shops and stores have a special delivery area, usually at the rear of the store.

NOUN► boy

· Perhaps he had just been a delivery boy.· One container held around thirty dollars in change and small bills, handy for tipping delivery boys, I suppose.· Policeman, judge, delivery boy, priest, referee, commissionaire.· The restaurant delivery boy rode skillfully up on his bike.· And he'd send messages back through his delivery boy!· He opened a flower shop but spends most of his time working as a delivery boy.

► care

· Health care delivery and earlier recognition of emerging infectious diseases are enhanced when susceptible populations are targeted for surveillance.· There is no system of health care delivery that has not been adversely affected by this fragmentation of people and their services.· Primary nursing, combined with a mentor system, would allow patient care delivery together with opportunities for uninterrupted teaching.

► date

· The delivery date for the futures contract is 30 June.· Similar relationships hold for cycles of futures contracts with different delivery dates, as shown in Fig. 8.2.· Poor delivery dates and servicing facilities are further factors to which empirical studies have attached major, even primary importance.· Corridor's platform will allow retailers to inform their customers of precise delivery dates through online links to manufacturers and distributors.· Where a delivery date had not been provided a shocking 59 per cent of goods were never delivered.· Before the delivery date, the buyer made a sub-contract to sell similar goods at 65s. per ton.· Confirm delivery date and make sure you send written confirmation of all the details.· And what about that delivery date?

► february

· Unleaded gasoline for February delivery fell 1. 83 cents to 58. 65 cents a gallon.

► home

· Customers can also order products online through links to Sainsbury's home delivery service.· The price for home delivery will remain at $ 175 per year.· We had 100 people in the retail home delivery, but that was going by the boards by then.· Add $ 5 extra for home delivery.

► man

· I did not want to appear like a delivery man.· The blacks retaliated by killing white delivery men and greeting white raiders with gunfire.· A quiet neighbourhood; no-one about but the occasional delivery man.· Icebox makers and ice delivery men thought they could slide by until companies like Frigidaire started selling a lot of refrigerators.· Ask the delivery man about how to operate it. 3.· But yesterday the newspaper delivery man walked free from Wimbledon Court, South London, after being fined £200 for indecent exposure.

► march

· Treasury bonds for March delivery dropped 7 / 32 to 120 1 / 8.· Bond futures for March delivery rose 0. 11 from their Friday Tokyo close to 119. 71.· Bond futures for March delivery will probably trade between 119. 50 yen and 119. 90 yen today, Ishibashi said.· Bond futures for March delivery rose 0. 17 from yesterday to 119. 87.· Bond futures for March delivery rose 0. 08 yen to 120. 06.· Bond futures for March delivery fell 0. 14 yen to 119. 46.

► note

· In spite of this, the Court of Appeal held that the parties intended risk to pass when the buyers accepted the delivery note.· When goods are delivered to the retailer they are first checked against the delivery note and entered in the stock records.· Alternatively, the seller may simply deliver goods together with a delivery note.· An account number or clear reference such as an order or delivery note number for identifying the invoice or statement. 5.· Accordingly the library sent 47 transparencies with a delivery note clearly requiring that they be returned by March 19.· The delivery note included nine conditions, printed in four columns, which the agency never read.· Under Leonore's eagle eye he had examined the suddenly produced delivery note and made only a cursory inspection of the truck.· Inside was a small, maroon, leather-bound notebook, but no letter or delivery note.

► room

· I was shaved, given an enema, sent to shower and then directed to a bed in the delivery room.· Further money has been used to buy hand mirrors for each delivery room.· In Britain newborn babies are identified with name tags before they leave the delivery room.

► schedule

· The skilful salesperson will ask for a concession in return - perhaps a less onerous delivery schedule.· The superintendent in the steel company needed power to get a more efficient delivery schedule of slabs.· Typically, managers focus on operating their area of assigned responsibility for efficiency, cost containment, and compliance with delivery schedules.· But the 5K86 is months behind its original delivery schedule and its performance is unremarkable, analysts say.· Motorola denies that any such problems will occur and says it will meet the delivery schedule.· They learn delivery schedules, work routines and product lines.

► service

· Six main objectives are indicated by the government for service delivery.· When governments separate policy management from service delivery, they often find that they have no real policy management capacity.· There is a danger too that campaigning or lobbying activities fit uneasily with service delivery.· Their commerce departments, welfare departments, housing authorities-all are driven by service delivery.· The service delivery is fundamental and must include everyone.· When the Progressives embraced service delivery by administrative bureaucracies, they embraced monopoly.· Labour needs to match its commitment to spending with innovative ideas about service delivery, financing and management.· For example: Communities have more commitment to their members than service delivery systems have to their clients.

► system

· Fifth I want to achieve a better delivery system - more cooperation with the tax system and better management.· Assembled products can be quickly shipped to wherever they are needed with just-in-time air freight delivery systems.· However, the growing flexibility in our delivery systems should mean that no-one is disadvantaged.· Because of its preventive aspects, nutrition education should be included at all levels of the health delivery system.· I own at least six caffeine delivery systems from a Melita to an espresso machine.· But by 1990 the world was no longer bipolar, except in strategic nuclear weapons and delivery systems.· Pedagogically, there must be a similar change towards an outreach and needs-oriented educational delivery system.· S., prompting, among other things, hospital consolidation and the formation of large regional health-care-delivery systems.

► time

· Both interventions involved minimal, project oriented teacher training and were circumscribed, involving three to five hours' delivery time overall.· Fifth, Wireboard expects the new plant to reduce delivery times by a factor of three while simultaneously achieving zero defects.· The company will, however, package to customers' specific requirements as regulations permit, in order to reduce delivery time.· Automakers also are demanding high-quality and innovative products and shorter design and delivery times, industry experts said.· Figure 9, below, shows the pattern of delivery times calculated.· Now one has a healthier order book while the other finds its delivery times and its storage needs slashed.· The Royal Mail Service booklet contains a guide to delivery times worldwide.· We can not guarantee a particular delivery time.

► times

· Figure 9, below, shows the pattern of delivery times calculated.· Fifth, Wireboard expects the new plant to reduce delivery times by a factor of three while simultaneously achieving zero defects.· Now one has a healthier order book while the other finds its delivery times and its storage needs slashed.· Automakers also are demanding high-quality and innovative products and shorter design and delivery times, industry experts said.· The Royal Mail Service booklet contains a guide to delivery times worldwide.· The delivery times for different categories of material are, therefore, discussed separately in the sections which follow.· Sellers may negotiate price, credit terms, delivery times, trade-in values and other aspects of the commercial transaction.

► truck

· What better way to transport escapees south than in the delivery trucks?· A few weeks back, one of her delivery trucks got broadsided outside the restaurant.· They were slow, unglamorous, seagoing delivery trucks, but they were also ideal as electronic snoopers.· They settled in San Diego, where Swensson drove a bread delivery truck.· Many of you ate behind the wheel of your car or delivery truck.

► van

· Motor vehicles: The business owns a fleet of cars and delivery vans all of which were bought from new.· Tommy purchases a new delivery van for $ 10, 000.· They have even given up their company cars and now tout for business in the firm's delivery van.· They initially bought 400 beds at £100 each and a delivery van for £6,000.· A smaller delivery van from a wholesaler was just moving into her unloading yard.· A large delivery van was almost blocking the narrow street, its high sides nearly shutting off the daylight from her windows.· He disappears into the constant traffic of delivery vans, porters and shoppers.· Soho at this hour was an area of delivery vans, and of pavements that were wet with hosing-down.

VERB► allow

· Name and address on the back, please. Allow 28 days for delivery.· The first modification requires that a reorder point be established that allows for delivery lead times.· As this is a personalised service, please allow six weeks for delivery.· This plant, which commenced production in June, allows next day delivery to both Melbourne and Sydney.· Please allow 28 days for delivery.· Primary nursing, combined with a mentor system, would allow patient care delivery together with opportunities for uninterrupted teaching.· Please make cheques payable to Lifestyle Promotions and allow 14 days for delivery.

► bond

· In London on Friday, bond futures for March delivery rose 0. 09 from their Tokyo close to 119. 69.

► include

· Shoestring operations include hand and bicycle delivery of membership communications produced on a generous Committee member's word processor.· Price includes delivery in the town.· Such local network systems would offer higher efficiency and greater local control of electricity, including generation, delivery and use.· This includes Saturday delivery, at no extra cost.· The price will include delivery and fitting where appropriate.· Those which trade generally tend to offer technical expertise and support service that includes training facilities and delivery.· The kids' bikes are a fantastic £89.95 - and both prices include delivery.

► make

· And good voice training will make your natural delivery sound ten times better than when you first started training.· Many truckers gave up on making deliveries and thousands were without power.· The lead time as shown is the time taken between the order being made and the delivery taking place.· Traffic had stalled to a stop because an oil truck was making a delivery, so the road was one lane wide.· The persons in the bakery assumed that they were the milkmen making the morning delivery and paid no attention.· Component suppliers decided to stop making deliveries unless they were paid.· David Richendifer of Denver said he had noticed added security in hotels and office buildings where his company makes deliveries.

► take

· He sold them to B who did not take delivery.· The buyer can exercise this right by refusing to take delivery or informing the seller that he rejects the goods.· First, the cheque which Y had given X when Y took delivery of the car from X, was dishonoured.· School joy: Eastbourne School, Darlington, will take delivery of a brand new £14,000 minibus on Wednesday.· The Army is taking delivery of LAW-80, a short range anti-tank weapon costing £400m.· Proof of posting will not be taken as proof of delivery.

PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► take delivery of something

First, the cheque which Y had given X when Y took delivery of the car from X, was dishonoured.
Read in studio A new detention centre for immigrants has taken delivery of its first inmates, despite protests from local people.
School joy: Eastbourne School, Darlington, will take delivery of a brand new £14,000 minibus on Wednesday.
Soon after taking delivery of the car, he had a crash in it, due to its defective steering mechanism.
The buyers took delivery of the foil but never made full payment.
The construction equipment giant has been a customer since the early Seventies, and has taken delivery of 150,000 engines to date.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► office/paper/delivery etc boy

And he'd send messages back through his delivery boy!
Even little office boys dressed as though they were running the country.
He opened a flower shop but spends most of his time working as a delivery boy.
One container held around thirty dollars in change and small bills, handy for tipping delivery boys, I suppose.
Perhaps he had just been a delivery boy.
Policeman, judge, delivery boy, priest, referee, commissionaire.
The restaurant delivery boy rode skillfully up on his bike.

► cash on delivery

Cash with order or cash on delivery is always better than cash some time in the future.
If you have reservations only accept orders on the basis of cash on delivery.
Most people will offer something even if it is only a few percent for cash on delivery.
Payment is to be made on a cash on delivery basis.
Terms of cash on delivery or advance payment should be instituted for future sales to consistently delinquent accounts.

单词	delivery
释义	deliveryde‧liv‧er‧y /dɪˈlɪvəri/ ●●● S3 W3 noun (plural deliveries) Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES A hospital is usually the best place for a safe delivery. Ask your neighbor to take any deliveries while you are on vacation. mail deliveries Meg was recovering from a particularly complicated delivery. Pizza Mondo offers free delivery. She had a quick, easy delivery. The actor gives his usual gruff delivery, meant to convince us he's honest. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS At first sight, indeed, every civilization looks rather like a railway goods yard, constantly receiving and dispatching miscellaneous deliveries. Bob had driven into the delivery yard after satisfying the man on the gate that he was on official business. Efficiency is also sought in accurate invoicing and supply, regular deliveries and good reporting on outstanding orders. I mean, I was seventeen or eighteen and helping out in deliveries. J., says cord prices are flat with last year at about $ 115 with delivery. Or pay extra for special handling or private delivery services. That is what we seek to do, rather than adopting a defeatist attitude to the delivery of health care. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorto have a baby► have a baby/have twins/have kittens etc · Having a baby changes your life completely.· After my wife had the twins, we were struggling financially for a while.· Our dog had six puppies while we were away on vacation. ► give birth to have a baby - use this especially to talk about the actual process of doing this: · Zelda was admitted to the hospital at one o'clock, and gave birth two hours later.give birth to a child/daughter etc: · When Pablo was three, his mother gave birth to a daughter. ► become a mother to have a baby for the first time: · Rachel was looking forward to becoming a mother.become the mother of a son/twins etc: · Nine months later she became the mother of a son, who was named George. ► childbirth the process of giving birth: · Most women have some kind of pain relief during childbirth.die in childbirth (=die while giving birth): · Samuel's mother died in childbirth, and he was brought up by his aunt.natural childbirth (=without drugs, medical operations etc): · Natural childbirth has become more popular over the last 20 years. ► labour British /labor American the whole process of giving birth, from the time when the baby starts to be pushed out of its mother's body: · When Connie realized that her labor was starting, she quickly phoned both her husband and doctor.in labour: · Sara was in labor for sixteen hours with our first child.go into labour (=begin the process of giving birth): · One of the horses had gone into labour while the farmer was away. ► delivery the process of giving birth, especially when the birth is helped by doctors and nurses: · A hospital is usually the best place for a safe delivery.· Meg was recovering from a particularly complicated delivery. WORD SETS► Birth afterbirth, nounantenatal, adjectiveartificial insemination, nounbaby blues, nounbarren, adjectivebarrier method, nounbear, verbbirth control, nounbreast-feed, verbbreech birth, nouncaesarean, nouncap, nounchildbearing, nounchildbirth, nounconceive, verbconfinement, nouncontraception, nouncontraction, nounC-section, noundeliver, verbdelivery, noundiaphragm, nounDutch cap, nounembryo, nounembryology, nouneugenics, nounfamily planning, nounfertility, nounfertility drug, nounfertilize, verbfetal, adjectivefetus, nounfoetal position, nounfoetus, nounfull-term, adjectivegestation, noungonad, nounincubator, nouninduce, verbinduction, nouninfant mortality rate, nouninfertile, adjectiveIUD, nounIVF, nounmaternal, adjectivematernity, nounmidwife, nounmidwifery, nounmilk, nounmiscarriage, nounmiscarry, verbmorning-after pill, nounmorning sickness, nounmother-to-be, nounmum-to-be, nounnatal, adjectivenatural, adjectivenatural childbirth, nounneuter, verbnurse, verbobstetrics, nounoral contraceptive, nounoviduct, nounovulate, verbovum, nounperinatal, adjectivepostnatal, adjectivepreemie, nounpregnancy, nounpregnant, adjectivepremature, adjectivepresentation, nounprocreate, verbproduce, verbquickening, nounreproduce, verbreproduction, nounreproductive, adjectiverhythm method, nounspay, verbsterile, adjectivesterilize, verbstillbirth, nounstillborn, adjectivestretch mark, nounsurrogate mother, nounswaddle, verbswaddling clothes, nountermination, nountest-tube baby, nountrimester, nounultrasound, nounumbilical cord, noununborn, adjectivewean, verbzygote, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + delivery► free (=you do not pay extra for it)· We offer free delivery anywhere in the UK.· Delivery is free for purchases over £20. ► special/express delivery (=that delivers mail and packages very quickly)· A brown package arrived by special delivery. ► next-day delivery (=happening on the next day)· You have to pay extra for next-day delivery. ► recorded delivery British English (=when a record is kept of posting and safe delivery)· I’d better send my passport by recorded delivery. ► mail delivery (also postal delivery British English)· The strike stopped mail deliveries to 20,000 homes and businesses. ► parcel delivery British English (=a parcel that someone delivers to you)· I’m expecting a parcel delivery later today. ► milk/fuel/pizza etc delivery · I gave the kids some money for a pizza delivery. delivery + NOUN► a delivery date/time · The normal delivery time is 7 – 10 days after you place your order. ► a delivery service · We try to maintain a high standard of delivery service to our customers. ► a delivery charge (=an amount of money you pay for delivery)· There’s no delivery charge on goods over £20. ► a delivery note (=piece of paper showing the details of your order)· A delivery note is sent along with the goods. ► a delivery truck (also delivery van British English)· Just then a delivery truck stopped outside. ► a delivery man (=man who delivers goods to people)· He got a job as a delivery man for a hardware store. verbs► do a delivery · We usually do the deliveries in the morning. ► make a delivery · I’m afraid we don’t make deliveries on Saturdays. ► offer delivery · We offer free, next-day delivery on all orders. ► have a delivery · We've just had a delivery of tiles from Italy. ► accept/receive a delivery · Someone must be at home to accept the delivery. ► take delivery of something · The airline has just taken delivery of three new passenger jets. COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a delivery charge · How much is the store’s delivery charge? ► the delivery date (=a date on which goods will be delivered)· The delivery date should be around 23rd August. ► a delivery driver (=delivering goods to a place)· He’s a delivery driver for a pizza takeaway restaurant. ► pick-up/fork-lift/delivery etc truck (=large vehicles used for particular purposes) His car was taken away on the back of a breakdown truck. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► late · They were awarded damages for this loss of ordinary business which arose naturally from the late delivery.· Boeing blamed late aircraft deliveries, snarled assembly lines and shortages of parts and skilled labor for the loss.· S claimed payment for the nodes, and B counterclaimed damages for late delivery.· B was therefore entitled to no damages for late delivery, and S was not entitled to contract payment.· Mr. Austin Mitchell With the Government, it is more a question of the late delivery of policies.· On the day, it's who handles any emergencies that crop up like blown fuses and late deliveries.· There are stiff penalty clauses for late delivery.· Of course, if delivery is late the buyer may accept late delivery thereby waiving his right to treat the contract as repudiated. ► special · A brown paper parcel arrived by special delivery.· Think instead of five hundred pounds - in cash - sent to you by special delivery every week.· Perhaps the birds are no more sinister than storks with a special delivery.· And that followed his special delivery at White Hart Lane last month, when he netted twice in a 2-0 Coventry win.· And, special delivery: The postman's bride ... two and a half years late.· Many shops and stores have a special delivery area, usually at the rear of the store. NOUN► boy · Perhaps he had just been a delivery boy.· One container held around thirty dollars in change and small bills, handy for tipping delivery boys, I suppose.· Policeman, judge, delivery boy, priest, referee, commissionaire.· The restaurant delivery boy rode skillfully up on his bike.· And he'd send messages back through his delivery boy!· He opened a flower shop but spends most of his time working as a delivery boy. ► care · Health care delivery and earlier recognition of emerging infectious diseases are enhanced when susceptible populations are targeted for surveillance.· There is no system of health care delivery that has not been adversely affected by this fragmentation of people and their services.· Primary nursing, combined with a mentor system, would allow patient care delivery together with opportunities for uninterrupted teaching. ► date · The delivery date for the futures contract is 30 June.· Similar relationships hold for cycles of futures contracts with different delivery dates, as shown in Fig. 8.2.· Poor delivery dates and servicing facilities are further factors to which empirical studies have attached major, even primary importance.· Corridor's platform will allow retailers to inform their customers of precise delivery dates through online links to manufacturers and distributors.· Where a delivery date had not been provided a shocking 59 per cent of goods were never delivered.· Before the delivery date, the buyer made a sub-contract to sell similar goods at 65s. per ton.· Confirm delivery date and make sure you send written confirmation of all the details.· And what about that delivery date? ► february · Unleaded gasoline for February delivery fell 1. 83 cents to 58. 65 cents a gallon. ► home · Customers can also order products online through links to Sainsbury's home delivery service.· The price for home delivery will remain at $ 175 per year.· We had 100 people in the retail home delivery, but that was going by the boards by then.· Add $ 5 extra for home delivery. ► man · I did not want to appear like a delivery man.· The blacks retaliated by killing white delivery men and greeting white raiders with gunfire.· A quiet neighbourhood; no-one about but the occasional delivery man.· Icebox makers and ice delivery men thought they could slide by until companies like Frigidaire started selling a lot of refrigerators.· Ask the delivery man about how to operate it. 3.· But yesterday the newspaper delivery man walked free from Wimbledon Court, South London, after being fined £200 for indecent exposure. ► march · Treasury bonds for March delivery dropped 7 / 32 to 120 1 / 8.· Bond futures for March delivery rose 0. 11 from their Friday Tokyo close to 119. 71.· Bond futures for March delivery will probably trade between 119. 50 yen and 119. 90 yen today, Ishibashi said.· Bond futures for March delivery rose 0. 17 from yesterday to 119. 87.· Bond futures for March delivery rose 0. 08 yen to 120. 06.· Bond futures for March delivery fell 0. 14 yen to 119. 46. ► note · In spite of this, the Court of Appeal held that the parties intended risk to pass when the buyers accepted the delivery note.· When goods are delivered to the retailer they are first checked against the delivery note and entered in the stock records.· Alternatively, the seller may simply deliver goods together with a delivery note.· An account number or clear reference such as an order or delivery note number for identifying the invoice or statement. 5.· Accordingly the library sent 47 transparencies with a delivery note clearly requiring that they be returned by March 19.· The delivery note included nine conditions, printed in four columns, which the agency never read.· Under Leonore's eagle eye he had examined the suddenly produced delivery note and made only a cursory inspection of the truck.· Inside was a small, maroon, leather-bound notebook, but no letter or delivery note. ► room · I was shaved, given an enema, sent to shower and then directed to a bed in the delivery room.· Further money has been used to buy hand mirrors for each delivery room.· In Britain newborn babies are identified with name tags before they leave the delivery room. ► schedule · The skilful salesperson will ask for a concession in return - perhaps a less onerous delivery schedule.· The superintendent in the steel company needed power to get a more efficient delivery schedule of slabs.· Typically, managers focus on operating their area of assigned responsibility for efficiency, cost containment, and compliance with delivery schedules.· But the 5K86 is months behind its original delivery schedule and its performance is unremarkable, analysts say.· Motorola denies that any such problems will occur and says it will meet the delivery schedule.· They learn delivery schedules, work routines and product lines. ► service · Six main objectives are indicated by the government for service delivery.· When governments separate policy management from service delivery, they often find that they have no real policy management capacity.· There is a danger too that campaigning or lobbying activities fit uneasily with service delivery.· Their commerce departments, welfare departments, housing authorities-all are driven by service delivery.· The service delivery is fundamental and must include everyone.· When the Progressives embraced service delivery by administrative bureaucracies, they embraced monopoly.· Labour needs to match its commitment to spending with innovative ideas about service delivery, financing and management.· For example: Communities have more commitment to their members than service delivery systems have to their clients. ► system · Fifth I want to achieve a better delivery system - more cooperation with the tax system and better management.· Assembled products can be quickly shipped to wherever they are needed with just-in-time air freight delivery systems.· However, the growing flexibility in our delivery systems should mean that no-one is disadvantaged.· Because of its preventive aspects, nutrition education should be included at all levels of the health delivery system.· I own at least six caffeine delivery systems from a Melita to an espresso machine.· But by 1990 the world was no longer bipolar, except in strategic nuclear weapons and delivery systems.· Pedagogically, there must be a similar change towards an outreach and needs-oriented educational delivery system.· S., prompting, among other things, hospital consolidation and the formation of large regional health-care-delivery systems. ► time · Both interventions involved minimal, project oriented teacher training and were circumscribed, involving three to five hours' delivery time overall.· Fifth, Wireboard expects the new plant to reduce delivery times by a factor of three while simultaneously achieving zero defects.· The company will, however, package to customers' specific requirements as regulations permit, in order to reduce delivery time.· Automakers also are demanding high-quality and innovative products and shorter design and delivery times, industry experts said.· Figure 9, below, shows the pattern of delivery times calculated.· Now one has a healthier order book while the other finds its delivery times and its storage needs slashed.· The Royal Mail Service booklet contains a guide to delivery times worldwide.· We can not guarantee a particular delivery time. ► times · Figure 9, below, shows the pattern of delivery times calculated.· Fifth, Wireboard expects the new plant to reduce delivery times by a factor of three while simultaneously achieving zero defects.· Now one has a healthier order book while the other finds its delivery times and its storage needs slashed.· Automakers also are demanding high-quality and innovative products and shorter design and delivery times, industry experts said.· The Royal Mail Service booklet contains a guide to delivery times worldwide.· The delivery times for different categories of material are, therefore, discussed separately in the sections which follow.· Sellers may negotiate price, credit terms, delivery times, trade-in values and other aspects of the commercial transaction. ► truck · What better way to transport escapees south than in the delivery trucks?· A few weeks back, one of her delivery trucks got broadsided outside the restaurant.· They were slow, unglamorous, seagoing delivery trucks, but they were also ideal as electronic snoopers.· They settled in San Diego, where Swensson drove a bread delivery truck.· Many of you ate behind the wheel of your car or delivery truck. ► van · Motor vehicles: The business owns a fleet of cars and delivery vans all of which were bought from new.· Tommy purchases a new delivery van for $ 10, 000.· They have even given up their company cars and now tout for business in the firm's delivery van.· They initially bought 400 beds at £100 each and a delivery van for £6,000.· A smaller delivery van from a wholesaler was just moving into her unloading yard.· A large delivery van was almost blocking the narrow street, its high sides nearly shutting off the daylight from her windows.· He disappears into the constant traffic of delivery vans, porters and shoppers.· Soho at this hour was an area of delivery vans, and of pavements that were wet with hosing-down. VERB► allow · Name and address on the back, please. Allow 28 days for delivery.· The first modification requires that a reorder point be established that allows for delivery lead times.· As this is a personalised service, please allow six weeks for delivery.· This plant, which commenced production in June, allows next day delivery to both Melbourne and Sydney.· Please allow 28 days for delivery.· Primary nursing, combined with a mentor system, would allow patient care delivery together with opportunities for uninterrupted teaching.· Please make cheques payable to Lifestyle Promotions and allow 14 days for delivery. ► bond · In London on Friday, bond futures for March delivery rose 0. 09 from their Tokyo close to 119. 69. ► include · Shoestring operations include hand and bicycle delivery of membership communications produced on a generous Committee member's word processor.· Price includes delivery in the town.· Such local network systems would offer higher efficiency and greater local control of electricity, including generation, delivery and use.· This includes Saturday delivery, at no extra cost.· The price will include delivery and fitting where appropriate.· Those which trade generally tend to offer technical expertise and support service that includes training facilities and delivery.· The kids' bikes are a fantastic £89.95 - and both prices include delivery. ► make · And good voice training will make your natural delivery sound ten times better than when you first started training.· Many truckers gave up on making deliveries and thousands were without power.· The lead time as shown is the time taken between the order being made and the delivery taking place.· Traffic had stalled to a stop because an oil truck was making a delivery, so the road was one lane wide.· The persons in the bakery assumed that they were the milkmen making the morning delivery and paid no attention.· Component suppliers decided to stop making deliveries unless they were paid.· David Richendifer of Denver said he had noticed added security in hotels and office buildings where his company makes deliveries. ► take · He sold them to B who did not take delivery.· The buyer can exercise this right by refusing to take delivery or informing the seller that he rejects the goods.· First, the cheque which Y had given X when Y took delivery of the car from X, was dishonoured.· School joy: Eastbourne School, Darlington, will take delivery of a brand new £14,000 minibus on Wednesday.· The Army is taking delivery of LAW-80, a short range anti-tank weapon costing £400m.· Proof of posting will not be taken as proof of delivery. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► take delivery of something First, the cheque which Y had given X when Y took delivery of the car from X, was dishonoured. Read in studio A new detention centre for immigrants has taken delivery of its first inmates, despite protests from local people. School joy: Eastbourne School, Darlington, will take delivery of a brand new £14,000 minibus on Wednesday. Soon after taking delivery of the car, he had a crash in it, due to its defective steering mechanism. The buyers took delivery of the foil but never made full payment. The construction equipment giant has been a customer since the early Seventies, and has taken delivery of 150,000 engines to date. PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► office/paper/delivery etc boy And he'd send messages back through his delivery boy! Even little office boys dressed as though they were running the country. He opened a flower shop but spends most of his time working as a delivery boy. One container held around thirty dollars in change and small bills, handy for tipping delivery boys, I suppose. Perhaps he had just been a delivery boy. Policeman, judge, delivery boy, priest, referee, commissionaire. The restaurant delivery boy rode skillfully up on his bike. ► cash on delivery Cash with order or cash on delivery is always better than cash some time in the future. If you have reservations only accept orders on the basis of cash on delivery. Most people will offer something even if it is only a few percent for cash on delivery. Payment is to be made on a cash on delivery basis. Terms of cash on delivery or advance payment should be instituted for future sales to consistently delinquent accounts. 1[countable, uncountable] the act of bringing goods, letters etc to a particular person or place, or the things that are brought: Most Indian restaurants offer free delivery. You can expect delivery in a week to ten days. fresh milk deliveriesdelivery of deliveries of food and supplieson delivery (=when something is delivered) The restaurant pays cash on delivery for fish, which the local fishermen like.2take delivery of something to officially accept something large that you have bought: We expect to take delivery of the aircraft sometime in June.3[countable] the process of giving birth to a child → labour: Mrs Howell had an easy delivery. Liz was taken to the delivery room (=a room in a hospital for births) immediately.4[uncountable] the way in which someone speaks in public: You’ll have to work on your delivery.COLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + deliveryfree (=you do not pay extra for it)· We offer free delivery anywhere in the UK.· Delivery is free for purchases over £20.special/express delivery (=that delivers mail and packages very quickly)· A brown package arrived by special delivery.next-day delivery (=happening on the next day)· You have to pay extra for next-day delivery.recorded delivery British English (=when a record is kept of posting and safe delivery)· I’d better send my passport by recorded delivery.mail delivery (also postal delivery British English)· The strike stopped mail deliveries to 20,000 homes and businesses.parcel delivery British English (=a parcel that someone delivers to you)· I’m expecting a parcel delivery later today.milk/fuel/pizza etc delivery· I gave the kids some money for a pizza delivery.delivery + NOUNa delivery date/time· The normal delivery time is 7 – 10 days after you place your order.a delivery service· We try to maintain a high standard of delivery service to our customers.a delivery charge (=an amount of money you pay for delivery)· There’s no delivery charge on goods over £20.a delivery note (=piece of paper showing the details of your order)· A delivery note is sent along with the goods.a delivery truck (also delivery van British English)· Just then a delivery truck stopped outside.a delivery man (=man who delivers goods to people)· He got a job as a delivery man for a hardware store.verbsdo a delivery· We usually do the deliveries in the morning.make a delivery· I’m afraid we don’t make deliveries on Saturdays.offer delivery· We offer free, next-day delivery on all orders.have a delivery· We've just had a delivery of tiles from Italy.accept/receive a delivery· Someone must be at home to accept the delivery.take delivery of something· The airline has just taken delivery of three new passenger jets.
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