Definition of deliver in English:

deliver

verb dɪˈlɪvədəˈlɪvər

[with object]

1Bring and hand over (a letter, parcel, or goods) to the proper recipient or address.
the products should be delivered on time
no object we'll deliver direct to your door
Example sentencesExamples
- Suddenly, regular citizens could go to town when they wanted, get supplies when they needed them, deliver goods directly to sellers.
- Then last Friday they delivered a bunch of letters and packages some dating back to the past two years.
- We recommend that customers only deliver goods to the billing address.
- Taking the initiative, including undertaking tasks beyond responsibilities and identifying new approaches to producing and delivering goods and services.
- The unexpected thrill of the reminder (something I blame on my father, who appeared to appreciate the postman delivering red letters rather too much) is important to me.
- The only thing at this time that I care to divulge is that my letter from Raychel instructed me to deliver her letters to their rightful recipients.
- The company's proposed radical changes to the way it delivers letters were aimed at saving €20m a year.
- Taxi drivers or drivers delivering goods around shops are among the most frequently used ‘mules’ since they would seem least suspicious.
- I want you to deliver this letter for me and bring a response back.
- The various races included children dressed as postmen with sling bags delivering letters at the finishing line, or as bakers who sieved flour before scampering to finish the race.
- What the council has done is carried out a poll that relied on letters being delivered to homes in the area and people taking the time to return a slip.
- Yet, last December we had serious backlogs in the delivery of Christmas mail when one million letters were delivered late.
- She recalls an experience at customs. when a parcel was not delivered, and she had to go and collect it herself from their office.
- Whilst in Britain a paper round is done by spotty 13 yr old kids before school, here it is a proper job and the delivery guys also double up by delivering goods during the days.
- This morning's good mood severely dented by incompetent carriers who have repeatedly failed to deliver parcels on time and to the right address.
- The postman is used to delivering mysterious parcels, packets and letters to the old ranch house, mostly from faraway places with strange sounding names.
- What happens if someone writes the wrong address on an envelope, or the postman delivers the letter to the wrong door?
- He sent a messenger to deliver the letter to the edge of the barrier and throw it to one of the prisoners within the dome.
- It is understood that 11 workers have been given notice, with some handed the news in a letter delivered by courier to their door late at night.
- The handwritten message is scanned and sent to the destination and the letter is delivered just as a telegram.
Synonyms
bring, take, take round, convey, carry, transport, distribute, drop-ship
send, dispatch, remit
hand over, turn over, transfer, make over, sign over
surrender, give up, yield, relinquish, cede, render up
consign, commit, entrust, trust, commend
2Provide (something promised or expected)
he had been able to deliver votes in huge numbers
no object she's waiting for him to deliver on his promise
Example sentencesExamples
- There is a reasonable choice of the old favourites that crop up on almost all Italian menus, but rarely deliver the promise or spirit of their names.
- People expect us to deliver on our election promises.
- In Britain, economic worries centred on the alarming prospect of pensions failing to deliver their optimistic promises.
- Until the Government and local councils deliver on their election promises of providing reliable and affordable alternatives to the car, situations like this will continue.
- Beats me how anyone could ever expect a politician to deliver on the promise of a national stadium, but there you are.
- We had a window of opportunity to deliver the promises to the town and the members and I as chairman feel I let the club down by failing to do so.
- For the minister, it is the first major test of whether he can bring the most powerful lobby group in the industry onside and deliver the promises set out in the health strategy.
- Besides delivering the promise of simplifying our life, these principles will perhaps begin to break the barriers imposed by antiquated rules.
- If the government is to deliver its promise to cut unemployment by 40,000, it will need to create 80,000 jobs.
- As respecters of rules and regulations they also expected their politicians to say what they mean, and deliver on their promises.
- They must also monitor commitments closely, and deliver on promises.
- If he fails to deliver on his election promises, chances are he could find himself confronted by another angry recall.
- There will be no ‘business as usual’, since his supporters expect him to deliver on the many promises he has made during the campaign.
- He doesn't expect them to deliver on any promise they will make.
- All in all, this book does deliver its promise, to fulfill a student's point locating needs.
- He said the achievements of the past five years were an effective guarantee that he would deliver his promises.
- However, he pointed out that, over the last four years, the Government has more than delivered its pre-election promises on tax cuts.
- The task of providing evidence that a service will deliver its promises becomes more difficult where the service is highly intangible.
- ‘I have promised people to continue the reforms and I am sure I can deliver my promises,’ he said after voting.
- It employs 18 full and part time trained staff and prides itself on delivering its promises by providing quality products at competitive prices.
Synonyms
provide, supply, furnish
1. 2.1 Formally hand over (someone)
  there was a reward if you were delivered unharmed to the nearest British post
  Example sentencesExamples
  It took both reflexes acting in concert to deliver the people of the Chagos archipelago into exile.
  I looked down on figures who, with their consorts, advisers, bureaucrats and academics, had delivered their own people to the vampires.
  Churchill was rejected by the people after delivering us through the horrors of world war.
  If he can deliver the British people to the Euro leaders, the Presidency of Europe awaits him.
2. 2.2deliver someone/something up Surrender someone or something.
  had he feared she would deliver him up to the police?
  Example sentencesExamples
  Beware of them, for they will deliver you up to councils, and flog you in their synagogues, and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear testimony before them.
  Had he feared she would deliver him up to the police?
  In any other civilised country, the head of the phone company would be delivered up on a platter for these serious infrastructure failures.
  Funnily enough, this doctor now claims that she was well treated and he was going to deliver her up to the Americans anyway.
  He who did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
  I caught the resignation attitude myself as I delivered the car up for its annual service and road test.
  Certain persons betrayed him, demanded his death, brought him to trial, condemned and delivered him up, mocked, tormented, and executed him.
  See and read Matthew 10: 16-21: ‘They will deliver you up,’ etc.
  Whenever bondsmen choose to do so, they may seize the defendant and deliver him up in their discharge, and if that cannot be done at once, they may imprison him until it can be done.
  If she wasn't beating us herself, she was delivering us up to the nuns for a whack.
3. 2.3Law Acknowledge that one intends to be bound by (a deed), either explicitly by declaration or implicitly by formal handover.
  Example sentencesExamples
  In witness of which this document has been signed and sealed as a deed and delivered the date and year first before written.
  The plaintiff had delivered a formal written notice within time, but the notice had failed to state the grounds of appeal or the facts on which he relied.
  The defendant having delivered its affidavits of documents and having appointed counsel, the motion to strike the statements of defence or post security for costs is dismissed.
  An affidavit of the defendant was delivered later in August 2004.
  It is no doubt true that a deed may be delivered on a condition that it is not to be operative until some event happens or some condition is performed.
3Launch or aim (a blow, ball, or attack)
he delivered a punch to the man's belly
figurative the company has delivered a body blow to this city
Example sentencesExamples
- He looked lively, sharp and delivers the ball ever so early.
- Jeremey landed, ducked the last attack and delivered an uppercut, sending the attacker sprawling to the ground five feet away.
- He's right: physicists have built wind tunnels to present theses on the art of delivering a dead ball.
- So far he had weathered numerous attacks, emerged unscathed and delivered a heavy blow to the Midway air base.
- Two wilting sides then slugged it out toe-to-toe in the extra 30 minutes before Town finally delivered the knock-out blow.
- He takes proper angles to the ball, not wasting any steps, and delivers a powerful blow when he gets there.
- He has worked on an exceptionally quick hand punch that delivers a blow before larger defensive tackles can get into their rushes.
- Chucking - the act of delivering a ball through straightening the arm in the process of bowling - has been with us since the dawn of cricket.
- While they all throw the ball, he delivers the ball according to the laws of cricket.
- The kapo raises his club, which he holds in both hands, and delivers a blow across the small of the man's back.
- The departing leader yesterday delivered a coruscating attack on the tormentors within his own party who he claimed had made it impossible for him to continue in office.
- He tackles ferociously, wins ball with his first touch and delivers perfect ball to his attack.
- A player delivers a ball and as he follows up is hit after delivering as he tries to follow up.
- One of the finest sights in all sport is a bowler with a smooth rhythmic run-up delivering the ball with an arched back and a flawless straight-arm action.
- The previous four seasons, the passing game was predicated on quick throws, with the quarterback often delivering the ball after three- and five-step drops.
- Both teams played a similar type of football with a concentration on tight marking and supporting the player in possession and delivering low ball into speedy forwards.
- He is quick to the ball and delivers a quality blow.
- Two Bradford sports enthusiasts are preparing to deliver a knock-out blow to the fitness industry when they launch a revolutionary new product.
- Several guards were required to repel the prisoner's attack; one soldier who came to the rescue delivered two blows to the inmate's head with a handheld radio.
- The gameplay dynamics are the same, allowing you to charge your energy, attack, defend, and deliver a finishing blow.
Synonyms
administer, deal, inflict, give, direct, aim
informal land
bowl, pitch, hurl, throw, cast, launch, lob
discharge, fire off
British Sport flight
1. 3.1 State in a formal manner.
  he will deliver a lecture on endangered species
  he delivered himself of a sermon
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Senator says he's looking forward to delivering his acceptance speech tomorrow.
  I was about to enter and deliver a stiff lecture on the evils of strong drink when I thought the better of it and turned on my heels.
  It seems to me that reaching into the wallet is a much more powerful articulation of desire and belief than delivering the lecture.
  Having delivered myself of that Friday afternoon piece of advice and homily, can we turn then to the preposed orders and directions.
  When the mock-up ends, Hawkeye appears on screen by himself, out of costume and delivers a solemn lecture on the human costs of war.
  Then he appears on a platform in San Juan or Port of Spain and delivers the finest speeches calling for racial unity.
  He delivered himself of this speech with the air of one who has solved a great truth.
  He recalls delivering a lecture at the University of Nottingham.
  Last night, back in the city to deliver a lecture, he repeated his grim warnings.
  By the same token he has well-honed skills of debate and a hectoring, let-me-do-it-right-for-you manner when delivering his otherwise glib answers.
  He opted to deliver a stern lecture on good manners.
  After years of distinguished study, he begins delivering lectures of his own, offering unique, insightful interpretations of Islamic texts.
  Formal speeches were delivered at the main gate but were drowned out by a low flying army helicopter.
  Knowing that a poor performance would reignite the whispering campaign against him, he spoke in a leaden manner before delivering a blunt ‘modernise or die’ message.
  The manner in which she delivers her message is most interesting.
  The funny thing is that every time, these pronouncements are delivered in a lecture.
  This unpretentious poetess does not go about lecturing or delivering sermons in high places.
  Who, for example, is the young woman economist, Australian by the sound of her accent, who delivers long lectures on how the world economy functions?
  Even as he was delivering his welcome home speech it had already been decided to send the SAS to another war.
  And besides them, there's the invitation-only crowd at the Banqueting House in Whitehall, to whom he will deliver the only formal speech of his visit.
  Synonyms
  utter, give, make, read, recite, broadcast, give voice to, voice, speak, declaim
  pronounce, announce, declare, proclaim, hand down, bring in, return, render, set forth
2. 3.2 (of a judge or court) give (a judgement or verdict)
  the court was due to deliver its verdict
  Example sentencesExamples
  Moreover, in delivering his verdict the judge can refuse to explain the basis of his decision if he deems national security could be compromised.
  This is just like a court delivering its ruling without listening to evidence and submissions by the concerned parties under the excuse of public request.
  The Constitutional Court delivered a half-right decision last Wednesday.
  The European judges delivered a unanimous verdict that denying a prisoner a vote does breach the ‘right to free elections’ set out in the convention.
  When a beautiful ruling like this is delivered by the judges, we must understand that these kinds of changes do not occur overnight.
  The trial judge is likely to deliver a verdict in September to the three men at the prison where they are detained.
  But the verdict delivered by the Court of Final Appeal said the authority will still be able to provide such facilities through another party after the listing.
  It is a matter of fact that the Court of Appeal delivered its decision…
  Visitors to the interactive exhibition can perform in front of the tough panel with the judges delivering their verdicts, more often than not trading insults among themselves.
  The judges are expected to deliver their verdict within weeks.
  In the end however convention spoke, and the delegates delivered their verdict.
  Against this backdrop, Roh should wait patiently until the Constitutional Court delivers its final verdict.
  A jury at Preston Crown Court delivered a unanimous not guilty verdict following seven-and-a-half hours of deliberation.
  Since the judge had delivered the verdict, he had felt permanently dazed.
  The jury at Leeds Crown Court delivered its verdict yesterday afternoon after hours of deliberation.
  The High Court recalled this observation while delivering its verdict in the case.
  The nine-judge Constitutional Court must deliver a final ruling on the motion within six months.
  The nine-member panel of judges are expected to deliver a verdict within seven days.
  Tonight's was incredibly moving; I actually found myself getting teary at the end, when the judges delivered their verdict - at least partly because they were so kind.
  The deficits court case is being heard under a special fast-track process and judges should deliver a verdict within six months.
4Assist in the birth of.
the village midwife delivered the baby
Example sentencesExamples
- A community midwife who has delivered hundreds of babies over the past 30 years has been honoured with an award for the special care she has given patients.
- She said: ‘We would both like to thank the two midwives who delivered the twins and everybody at the special care baby unit.’
- Sean has been there for all the births and delivered the last two children, with a midwife's supervision.
- A midwife who has delivered hundreds of babies for mothers in the Maldon district is set to retire.
- Ita was the local midwife and delivered many a home birth before the Maternity Hospital era in rural parishes.
- A hospital's first midwife has retired after delivering more than 1,000 babies in 37 years.
- He turned midwife this week to deliver his first grandson.
- I delivered their baby seven months later.
- Fortunately, she was able to call her mother Carol, who turned midwife to help deliver baby Abigail on the kitchen floor.
- He had to deliver the 6lb 5oz baby himself on the living room floor.
- He said that during his career he had delivered something like 8,000 babies, roughly equivalent to the town's population today.
- They told my mum that they had to deliver the baby straight away to save one of our lives.
- ‘All of my three children were born at home, delivered by the same midwife who lived near my home,’ she recalled.
- I've been a mid-wife for twenty years now and have delivered hundreds of babies.
- The delivery room nurse, the resident, and the attending physician assisted as the plaintiff delivered a healthy baby boy.
- I don't know if this proves anything either, but I myself was delivered by a local midwife, who apparently taught herself everything she knew.
- He was in charge of the elderly care unit at the local cottage hospital and did his own obstetric care, delivering many Bridlington babies.
Synonyms
give birth to, bear, be delivered of, have, bring into the world, bring forth
1. 4.1 Give birth to.
  the number of women delivering their babies in hospitals increased
  Example sentencesExamples
  At length, however, she was delivered of a child; but it is uncertain whether it was born alive or not.
  In June 2001 she was delivered of a 3.1 kg healthy boy, her seventh child and fourth caesarean.
  Synonyms
  give birth to, bear, be delivered of, have, bring into the world, bring forth
  North American birth
  informal drop
  archaic be brought to bed of
2. 4.2archaic, formal Assist (a woman) in giving birth.
  Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge was safely delivered of a son at 4.24 p.m.
5deliver someone/something fromSave, rescue, or set someone or something free from.
deliver us from the nightmare of junk mail
Example sentencesExamples
- His strong performance delivers the movie from all-out silliness; this is quite a feat, given that he's required to utter lines like ‘That's a sandstorm!’
- But the region will pay a heavy price for his folly unless the scandal swirling around him delivers the world from his Machiavellian designs.
- He credits his party with delivering the city from debt and unemployment to the promised land of productivity and job creation.
- And you can't really imagine the people round here jumping up and down with excitement shouting: ‘Hooray, she has delivered our children from the scourge of rickets.’
- The UN Charter spoke of delivering the world from the scourge of war - we never learn.
- He says self-help groups have delivered people from the clutches of moneylenders who charge 120 per cent as interest.
- The Alliance deserves some credit; within the Alliance platform are the means to address delivering our government from its bureaucratic nightmare.
- The Bishop is delivering his congregation from credit card debt one family at a time - using only donations from other congregants.
- She prayed the bell would save her and deliver her from this torment, but her prayer fell on mute ears and there were still seven minutes when she reached the front and turned to face the class.
- Councillors and public figures struggle to hide their pride in delivering their city from an Aids epidemic.
Synonyms
save, rescue, set free, free, liberate, release, set at liberty, set loose, extricate, discharge, emancipate, redeem, ransom
literary disenthral
historical manumit

Phrases

deliver the goods

informal Provide that which is promised or expected.
the command economy can't deliver the goods
Example sentencesExamples
- Although rather sparse by Hong Kong standards, when the hand-to-hand kicks in, it delivers the goods.
- I did this for a while and it more than delivers the goods.
- It's much more difficult to deliver the goods when everyone expects it of you.
- A very darkly entertaining fairy tale that was a little bit deeper, but still delivers the goods.
- It's a darker, more complex film that seriously promises to deliver the goods, but comes up a bit short.
- At 336.5p, the shares could go higher if the company delivers the goods.
- Open economies and open societies are good provided they deliver the goods for ordinary working families.
- The problem is the gap between the promises of basic discovery and the clinical trials that deliver the goods.
- It has now reverted to a more traditional process and this is expected to deliver the goods by the first half of next year.
- The ministers and MPs are aware that people's expectations are very high as they are expected to deliver the goods.
Synonyms
fulfil, live up to, carry out, carry through, implement, make good

Derivatives

deliverer

noun dɪˈlɪvərədəˈlɪv(ə)rər

Those ministers who are up to the job have to be liberated to become the leaders and deliverers of change.
Example sentencesExamples
- Quicksilver, liquid metal, nickname for Mercury, keeper of eloquence and dexterity, protector of roads, deliverer of the messages we need.
- From beneficial protectors to deliverers of evil, owls have been important in human superstitions across cultures throughout the world.
- Writing in 1888, historian Henry Howe said that when MacGahan returned to Bulgaria in 1877, he was everywhere hailed as a liberator and deliverer.
- The concept of a redeemer, a liberator, or a deliverer is much closer to the state of mind that is prevalent today than is the innocuous and ambiguous term information.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French delivrer, based on Latin de- 'away' + liberare 'set free'.

Deliver goes back to Latin liber ‘free’, which is also the source of liberty. The word has been used for taking and handing over letters and goods since the late Middle Ages. The phrase to deliver the goods, ‘to provide what is promised and expected’, is from the USA, and the first known examples are from political debate in the 1870s. Highwaymen really did tell their victims to stand and deliver—the phrase is mentioned in an early 18th-century account of the lives of highwaymen.

Definition of deliver in US English:

deliver

verbdəˈlɪvərdəˈlivər

[with object]

1Bring and hand over (a letter, parcel, or ordered goods) to the proper recipient or address.
the products should be delivered on time
no object we'll deliver direct to your door
Example sentencesExamples
- The only thing at this time that I care to divulge is that my letter from Raychel instructed me to deliver her letters to their rightful recipients.
- The company's proposed radical changes to the way it delivers letters were aimed at saving €20m a year.
- This morning's good mood severely dented by incompetent carriers who have repeatedly failed to deliver parcels on time and to the right address.
- She recalls an experience at customs. when a parcel was not delivered, and she had to go and collect it herself from their office.
- What happens if someone writes the wrong address on an envelope, or the postman delivers the letter to the wrong door?
- The various races included children dressed as postmen with sling bags delivering letters at the finishing line, or as bakers who sieved flour before scampering to finish the race.
- What the council has done is carried out a poll that relied on letters being delivered to homes in the area and people taking the time to return a slip.
- Then last Friday they delivered a bunch of letters and packages some dating back to the past two years.
- The handwritten message is scanned and sent to the destination and the letter is delivered just as a telegram.
- Taking the initiative, including undertaking tasks beyond responsibilities and identifying new approaches to producing and delivering goods and services.
- He sent a messenger to deliver the letter to the edge of the barrier and throw it to one of the prisoners within the dome.
- Suddenly, regular citizens could go to town when they wanted, get supplies when they needed them, deliver goods directly to sellers.
- Yet, last December we had serious backlogs in the delivery of Christmas mail when one million letters were delivered late.
- Whilst in Britain a paper round is done by spotty 13 yr old kids before school, here it is a proper job and the delivery guys also double up by delivering goods during the days.
- The postman is used to delivering mysterious parcels, packets and letters to the old ranch house, mostly from faraway places with strange sounding names.
- The unexpected thrill of the reminder (something I blame on my father, who appeared to appreciate the postman delivering red letters rather too much) is important to me.
- Taxi drivers or drivers delivering goods around shops are among the most frequently used ‘mules’ since they would seem least suspicious.
- It is understood that 11 workers have been given notice, with some handed the news in a letter delivered by courier to their door late at night.
- We recommend that customers only deliver goods to the billing address.
- I want you to deliver this letter for me and bring a response back.
Synonyms
bring, take, take round, convey, carry, transport, distribute, drop-ship
hand over, turn over, transfer, make over, sign over
2Provide (something promised or expected)
he had been able to deliver votes in huge numbers
she's waiting for him to deliver on his promise
Example sentencesExamples
- For the minister, it is the first major test of whether he can bring the most powerful lobby group in the industry onside and deliver the promises set out in the health strategy.
- As respecters of rules and regulations they also expected their politicians to say what they mean, and deliver on their promises.
- We had a window of opportunity to deliver the promises to the town and the members and I as chairman feel I let the club down by failing to do so.
- There will be no ‘business as usual’, since his supporters expect him to deliver on the many promises he has made during the campaign.
- If the government is to deliver its promise to cut unemployment by 40,000, it will need to create 80,000 jobs.
- In Britain, economic worries centred on the alarming prospect of pensions failing to deliver their optimistic promises.
- ‘I have promised people to continue the reforms and I am sure I can deliver my promises,’ he said after voting.
- They must also monitor commitments closely, and deliver on promises.
- He doesn't expect them to deliver on any promise they will make.
- It employs 18 full and part time trained staff and prides itself on delivering its promises by providing quality products at competitive prices.
- Besides delivering the promise of simplifying our life, these principles will perhaps begin to break the barriers imposed by antiquated rules.
- He said the achievements of the past five years were an effective guarantee that he would deliver his promises.
- All in all, this book does deliver its promise, to fulfill a student's point locating needs.
- If he fails to deliver on his election promises, chances are he could find himself confronted by another angry recall.
- Until the Government and local councils deliver on their election promises of providing reliable and affordable alternatives to the car, situations like this will continue.
- Beats me how anyone could ever expect a politician to deliver on the promise of a national stadium, but there you are.
- People expect us to deliver on our election promises.
- The task of providing evidence that a service will deliver its promises becomes more difficult where the service is highly intangible.
- However, he pointed out that, over the last four years, the Government has more than delivered its pre-election promises on tax cuts.
- There is a reasonable choice of the old favourites that crop up on almost all Italian menus, but rarely deliver the promise or spirit of their names.
Synonyms
provide, supply, furnish
fulfil, live up to, carry out, carry through, implement, make good
1. 2.1 Formally hand over (someone)
  they would have delivered him to the Germans for vengeance
  Example sentencesExamples
  I looked down on figures who, with their consorts, advisers, bureaucrats and academics, had delivered their own people to the vampires.
  Churchill was rejected by the people after delivering us through the horrors of world war.
  It took both reflexes acting in concert to deliver the people of the Chagos archipelago into exile.
  If he can deliver the British people to the Euro leaders, the Presidency of Europe awaits him.
2. 2.2deliver someone/something up Surrender someone or something.
  to deliver up to justice a member of his own family
  Example sentencesExamples
  He who did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
  See and read Matthew 10: 16-21: ‘They will deliver you up,’ etc.
  Certain persons betrayed him, demanded his death, brought him to trial, condemned and delivered him up, mocked, tormented, and executed him.
  In any other civilised country, the head of the phone company would be delivered up on a platter for these serious infrastructure failures.
  Beware of them, for they will deliver you up to councils, and flog you in their synagogues, and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear testimony before them.
  I caught the resignation attitude myself as I delivered the car up for its annual service and road test.
  Whenever bondsmen choose to do so, they may seize the defendant and deliver him up in their discharge, and if that cannot be done at once, they may imprison him until it can be done.
  Had he feared she would deliver him up to the police?
  If she wasn't beating us herself, she was delivering us up to the nuns for a whack.
  Funnily enough, this doctor now claims that she was well treated and he was going to deliver her up to the Americans anyway.
3. 2.3Law Acknowledge that one intends to be bound by (a deed), either explicitly by declaration or implicitly by formal handover.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The plaintiff had delivered a formal written notice within time, but the notice had failed to state the grounds of appeal or the facts on which he relied.
  An affidavit of the defendant was delivered later in August 2004.
  It is no doubt true that a deed may be delivered on a condition that it is not to be operative until some event happens or some condition is performed.
  The defendant having delivered its affidavits of documents and having appointed counsel, the motion to strike the statements of defence or post security for costs is dismissed.
  In witness of which this document has been signed and sealed as a deed and delivered the date and year first before written.
3Launch or aim (a blow, ball, or attack)
the pitcher winds up to deliver the ball
Example sentencesExamples
- Jeremey landed, ducked the last attack and delivered an uppercut, sending the attacker sprawling to the ground five feet away.
- Two wilting sides then slugged it out toe-to-toe in the extra 30 minutes before Town finally delivered the knock-out blow.
- Two Bradford sports enthusiasts are preparing to deliver a knock-out blow to the fitness industry when they launch a revolutionary new product.
- One of the finest sights in all sport is a bowler with a smooth rhythmic run-up delivering the ball with an arched back and a flawless straight-arm action.
- Both teams played a similar type of football with a concentration on tight marking and supporting the player in possession and delivering low ball into speedy forwards.
- The kapo raises his club, which he holds in both hands, and delivers a blow across the small of the man's back.
- He takes proper angles to the ball, not wasting any steps, and delivers a powerful blow when he gets there.
- While they all throw the ball, he delivers the ball according to the laws of cricket.
- So far he had weathered numerous attacks, emerged unscathed and delivered a heavy blow to the Midway air base.
- He tackles ferociously, wins ball with his first touch and delivers perfect ball to his attack.
- The gameplay dynamics are the same, allowing you to charge your energy, attack, defend, and deliver a finishing blow.
- A player delivers a ball and as he follows up is hit after delivering as he tries to follow up.
- He is quick to the ball and delivers a quality blow.
- Several guards were required to repel the prisoner's attack; one soldier who came to the rescue delivered two blows to the inmate's head with a handheld radio.
- The previous four seasons, the passing game was predicated on quick throws, with the quarterback often delivering the ball after three- and five-step drops.
- The departing leader yesterday delivered a coruscating attack on the tormentors within his own party who he claimed had made it impossible for him to continue in office.
- He has worked on an exceptionally quick hand punch that delivers a blow before larger defensive tackles can get into their rushes.
- Chucking - the act of delivering a ball through straightening the arm in the process of bowling - has been with us since the dawn of cricket.
- He looked lively, sharp and delivers the ball ever so early.
- He's right: physicists have built wind tunnels to present theses on the art of delivering a dead ball.
Synonyms
administer, deal, inflict, give, direct, aim
bowl, pitch, hurl, throw, cast, launch, lob
1. 3.1 State in a formal manner.
  he delivered himself of a sermon
  the President will deliver a speech
  Example sentencesExamples
  Having delivered myself of that Friday afternoon piece of advice and homily, can we turn then to the preposed orders and directions.
  He opted to deliver a stern lecture on good manners.
  The manner in which she delivers her message is most interesting.
  Even as he was delivering his welcome home speech it had already been decided to send the SAS to another war.
  He delivered himself of this speech with the air of one who has solved a great truth.
  Who, for example, is the young woman economist, Australian by the sound of her accent, who delivers long lectures on how the world economy functions?
  By the same token he has well-honed skills of debate and a hectoring, let-me-do-it-right-for-you manner when delivering his otherwise glib answers.
  Last night, back in the city to deliver a lecture, he repeated his grim warnings.
  It seems to me that reaching into the wallet is a much more powerful articulation of desire and belief than delivering the lecture.
  And besides them, there's the invitation-only crowd at the Banqueting House in Whitehall, to whom he will deliver the only formal speech of his visit.
  Knowing that a poor performance would reignite the whispering campaign against him, he spoke in a leaden manner before delivering a blunt ‘modernise or die’ message.
  When the mock-up ends, Hawkeye appears on screen by himself, out of costume and delivers a solemn lecture on the human costs of war.
  He recalls delivering a lecture at the University of Nottingham.
  This unpretentious poetess does not go about lecturing or delivering sermons in high places.
  The Senator says he's looking forward to delivering his acceptance speech tomorrow.
  I was about to enter and deliver a stiff lecture on the evils of strong drink when I thought the better of it and turned on my heels.
  The funny thing is that every time, these pronouncements are delivered in a lecture.
  Then he appears on a platform in San Juan or Port of Spain and delivers the finest speeches calling for racial unity.
  Formal speeches were delivered at the main gate but were drowned out by a low flying army helicopter.
  After years of distinguished study, he begins delivering lectures of his own, offering unique, insightful interpretations of Islamic texts.
  Synonyms
  utter, give, make, read, recite, broadcast, give voice to, voice, speak, declaim
2. 3.2 (of a judge or court) give (a judgment or verdict)
  the judge delivered his verdict
  Example sentencesExamples
  The High Court recalled this observation while delivering its verdict in the case.
  The trial judge is likely to deliver a verdict in September to the three men at the prison where they are detained.
  This is just like a court delivering its ruling without listening to evidence and submissions by the concerned parties under the excuse of public request.
  But the verdict delivered by the Court of Final Appeal said the authority will still be able to provide such facilities through another party after the listing.
  The European judges delivered a unanimous verdict that denying a prisoner a vote does breach the ‘right to free elections’ set out in the convention.
  The judges are expected to deliver their verdict within weeks.
  Moreover, in delivering his verdict the judge can refuse to explain the basis of his decision if he deems national security could be compromised.
  Tonight's was incredibly moving; I actually found myself getting teary at the end, when the judges delivered their verdict - at least partly because they were so kind.
  Visitors to the interactive exhibition can perform in front of the tough panel with the judges delivering their verdicts, more often than not trading insults among themselves.
  The nine-judge Constitutional Court must deliver a final ruling on the motion within six months.
  Since the judge had delivered the verdict, he had felt permanently dazed.
  The nine-member panel of judges are expected to deliver a verdict within seven days.
  The jury at Leeds Crown Court delivered its verdict yesterday afternoon after hours of deliberation.
  When a beautiful ruling like this is delivered by the judges, we must understand that these kinds of changes do not occur overnight.
  The deficits court case is being heard under a special fast-track process and judges should deliver a verdict within six months.
  The Constitutional Court delivered a half-right decision last Wednesday.
  It is a matter of fact that the Court of Appeal delivered its decision…
  In the end however convention spoke, and the delegates delivered their verdict.
  Against this backdrop, Roh should wait patiently until the Constitutional Court delivers its final verdict.
  A jury at Preston Crown Court delivered a unanimous not guilty verdict following seven-and-a-half hours of deliberation.
4Assist in the birth of.
the village midwife delivered the baby
Example sentencesExamples
- He was in charge of the elderly care unit at the local cottage hospital and did his own obstetric care, delivering many Bridlington babies.
- ‘All of my three children were born at home, delivered by the same midwife who lived near my home,’ she recalled.
- He had to deliver the 6lb 5oz baby himself on the living room floor.
- They told my mum that they had to deliver the baby straight away to save one of our lives.
- He turned midwife this week to deliver his first grandson.
- A hospital's first midwife has retired after delivering more than 1,000 babies in 37 years.
- The delivery room nurse, the resident, and the attending physician assisted as the plaintiff delivered a healthy baby boy.
- I don't know if this proves anything either, but I myself was delivered by a local midwife, who apparently taught herself everything she knew.
- Fortunately, she was able to call her mother Carol, who turned midwife to help deliver baby Abigail on the kitchen floor.
- He said that during his career he had delivered something like 8,000 babies, roughly equivalent to the town's population today.
- She said: ‘We would both like to thank the two midwives who delivered the twins and everybody at the special care baby unit.’
- A community midwife who has delivered hundreds of babies over the past 30 years has been honoured with an award for the special care she has given patients.
- A midwife who has delivered hundreds of babies for mothers in the Maldon district is set to retire.
- I've been a mid-wife for twenty years now and have delivered hundreds of babies.
- Ita was the local midwife and delivered many a home birth before the Maternity Hospital era in rural parishes.
- I delivered their baby seven months later.
- Sean has been there for all the births and delivered the last two children, with a midwife's supervision.
Synonyms
give birth to, bear, be delivered of, have, bring into the world, bring forth
1. 4.1 Give birth to.
  the number of women delivering their babies in hospitals increased
  Example sentencesExamples
  At length, however, she was delivered of a child; but it is uncertain whether it was born alive or not.
  In June 2001 she was delivered of a 3.1 kg healthy boy, her seventh child and fourth caesarean.
  Synonyms
  give birth to, bear, be delivered of, have, bring into the world, bring forth
2. 4.2formal, archaic Assist (a woman) in giving birth.
  she was delivered of her second child
5deliver someone/something fromSave, rescue, or set someone or something free from.
deliver us from misery
Example sentencesExamples
- The Bishop is delivering his congregation from credit card debt one family at a time - using only donations from other congregants.
- He credits his party with delivering the city from debt and unemployment to the promised land of productivity and job creation.
- And you can't really imagine the people round here jumping up and down with excitement shouting: ‘Hooray, she has delivered our children from the scourge of rickets.’
- But the region will pay a heavy price for his folly unless the scandal swirling around him delivers the world from his Machiavellian designs.
- His strong performance delivers the movie from all-out silliness; this is quite a feat, given that he's required to utter lines like ‘That's a sandstorm!’
- The Alliance deserves some credit; within the Alliance platform are the means to address delivering our government from its bureaucratic nightmare.
- The UN Charter spoke of delivering the world from the scourge of war - we never learn.
- Councillors and public figures struggle to hide their pride in delivering their city from an Aids epidemic.
- He says self-help groups have delivered people from the clutches of moneylenders who charge 120 per cent as interest.
- She prayed the bell would save her and deliver her from this torment, but her prayer fell on mute ears and there were still seven minutes when she reached the front and turned to face the class.
Synonyms
save, rescue, set free, free, liberate, release, set at liberty, set loose, extricate, discharge, emancipate, redeem, ransom

Phrases

deliver the goods

informal Provide what is promised or expected.
Example sentencesExamples
- At 336.5p, the shares could go higher if the company delivers the goods.
- The problem is the gap between the promises of basic discovery and the clinical trials that deliver the goods.
- It's much more difficult to deliver the goods when everyone expects it of you.
- Although rather sparse by Hong Kong standards, when the hand-to-hand kicks in, it delivers the goods.
- The ministers and MPs are aware that people's expectations are very high as they are expected to deliver the goods.
- It has now reverted to a more traditional process and this is expected to deliver the goods by the first half of next year.
- I did this for a while and it more than delivers the goods.
- It's a darker, more complex film that seriously promises to deliver the goods, but comes up a bit short.
- A very darkly entertaining fairy tale that was a little bit deeper, but still delivers the goods.
- Open economies and open societies are good provided they deliver the goods for ordinary working families.
Synonyms
fulfil, live up to, carry out, carry through, implement, make good

Origin

Middle English: from Old French delivrer, based on Latin de- ‘away’ + liberare ‘set free’.

单词	deliver
释义	Definition of deliver in English: deliver verb dɪˈlɪvədəˈlɪvər [with object] 1Bring and hand over (a letter, parcel, or goods) to the proper recipient or address. the products should be delivered on time no object we'll deliver direct to your door Example sentencesExamples Suddenly, regular citizens could go to town when they wanted, get supplies when they needed them, deliver goods directly to sellers. Then last Friday they delivered a bunch of letters and packages some dating back to the past two years. We recommend that customers only deliver goods to the billing address. Taking the initiative, including undertaking tasks beyond responsibilities and identifying new approaches to producing and delivering goods and services. The unexpected thrill of the reminder (something I blame on my father, who appeared to appreciate the postman delivering red letters rather too much) is important to me. The only thing at this time that I care to divulge is that my letter from Raychel instructed me to deliver her letters to their rightful recipients. The company's proposed radical changes to the way it delivers letters were aimed at saving €20m a year. Taxi drivers or drivers delivering goods around shops are among the most frequently used ‘mules’ since they would seem least suspicious. I want you to deliver this letter for me and bring a response back. The various races included children dressed as postmen with sling bags delivering letters at the finishing line, or as bakers who sieved flour before scampering to finish the race. What the council has done is carried out a poll that relied on letters being delivered to homes in the area and people taking the time to return a slip. Yet, last December we had serious backlogs in the delivery of Christmas mail when one million letters were delivered late. She recalls an experience at customs. when a parcel was not delivered, and she had to go and collect it herself from their office. Whilst in Britain a paper round is done by spotty 13 yr old kids before school, here it is a proper job and the delivery guys also double up by delivering goods during the days. This morning's good mood severely dented by incompetent carriers who have repeatedly failed to deliver parcels on time and to the right address. The postman is used to delivering mysterious parcels, packets and letters to the old ranch house, mostly from faraway places with strange sounding names. What happens if someone writes the wrong address on an envelope, or the postman delivers the letter to the wrong door? He sent a messenger to deliver the letter to the edge of the barrier and throw it to one of the prisoners within the dome. It is understood that 11 workers have been given notice, with some handed the news in a letter delivered by courier to their door late at night. The handwritten message is scanned and sent to the destination and the letter is delivered just as a telegram. Synonyms bring, take, take round, convey, carry, transport, distribute, drop-ship send, dispatch, remit hand over, turn over, transfer, make over, sign over surrender, give up, yield, relinquish, cede, render up consign, commit, entrust, trust, commend 2Provide (something promised or expected) he had been able to deliver votes in huge numbers no object she's waiting for him to deliver on his promise Example sentencesExamples There is a reasonable choice of the old favourites that crop up on almost all Italian menus, but rarely deliver the promise or spirit of their names. People expect us to deliver on our election promises. In Britain, economic worries centred on the alarming prospect of pensions failing to deliver their optimistic promises. Until the Government and local councils deliver on their election promises of providing reliable and affordable alternatives to the car, situations like this will continue. Beats me how anyone could ever expect a politician to deliver on the promise of a national stadium, but there you are. We had a window of opportunity to deliver the promises to the town and the members and I as chairman feel I let the club down by failing to do so. For the minister, it is the first major test of whether he can bring the most powerful lobby group in the industry onside and deliver the promises set out in the health strategy. Besides delivering the promise of simplifying our life, these principles will perhaps begin to break the barriers imposed by antiquated rules. If the government is to deliver its promise to cut unemployment by 40,000, it will need to create 80,000 jobs. As respecters of rules and regulations they also expected their politicians to say what they mean, and deliver on their promises. They must also monitor commitments closely, and deliver on promises. If he fails to deliver on his election promises, chances are he could find himself confronted by another angry recall. There will be no ‘business as usual’, since his supporters expect him to deliver on the many promises he has made during the campaign. He doesn't expect them to deliver on any promise they will make. All in all, this book does deliver its promise, to fulfill a student's point locating needs. He said the achievements of the past five years were an effective guarantee that he would deliver his promises. However, he pointed out that, over the last four years, the Government has more than delivered its pre-election promises on tax cuts. The task of providing evidence that a service will deliver its promises becomes more difficult where the service is highly intangible. ‘I have promised people to continue the reforms and I am sure I can deliver my promises,’ he said after voting. It employs 18 full and part time trained staff and prides itself on delivering its promises by providing quality products at competitive prices. Synonyms provide, supply, furnish 2.1 Formally hand over (someone) there was a reward if you were delivered unharmed to the nearest British post Example sentencesExamples It took both reflexes acting in concert to deliver the people of the Chagos archipelago into exile. I looked down on figures who, with their consorts, advisers, bureaucrats and academics, had delivered their own people to the vampires. Churchill was rejected by the people after delivering us through the horrors of world war. If he can deliver the British people to the Euro leaders, the Presidency of Europe awaits him. 2.2deliver someone/something up Surrender someone or something. had he feared she would deliver him up to the police? Example sentencesExamples Beware of them, for they will deliver you up to councils, and flog you in their synagogues, and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear testimony before them. Had he feared she would deliver him up to the police? In any other civilised country, the head of the phone company would be delivered up on a platter for these serious infrastructure failures. Funnily enough, this doctor now claims that she was well treated and he was going to deliver her up to the Americans anyway. He who did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? I caught the resignation attitude myself as I delivered the car up for its annual service and road test. Certain persons betrayed him, demanded his death, brought him to trial, condemned and delivered him up, mocked, tormented, and executed him. See and read Matthew 10: 16-21: ‘They will deliver you up,’ etc. Whenever bondsmen choose to do so, they may seize the defendant and deliver him up in their discharge, and if that cannot be done at once, they may imprison him until it can be done. If she wasn't beating us herself, she was delivering us up to the nuns for a whack. 2.3Law Acknowledge that one intends to be bound by (a deed), either explicitly by declaration or implicitly by formal handover. Example sentencesExamples In witness of which this document has been signed and sealed as a deed and delivered the date and year first before written. The plaintiff had delivered a formal written notice within time, but the notice had failed to state the grounds of appeal or the facts on which he relied. The defendant having delivered its affidavits of documents and having appointed counsel, the motion to strike the statements of defence or post security for costs is dismissed. An affidavit of the defendant was delivered later in August 2004. It is no doubt true that a deed may be delivered on a condition that it is not to be operative until some event happens or some condition is performed. 3Launch or aim (a blow, ball, or attack) he delivered a punch to the man's belly figurative the company has delivered a body blow to this city Example sentencesExamples He looked lively, sharp and delivers the ball ever so early. Jeremey landed, ducked the last attack and delivered an uppercut, sending the attacker sprawling to the ground five feet away. He's right: physicists have built wind tunnels to present theses on the art of delivering a dead ball. So far he had weathered numerous attacks, emerged unscathed and delivered a heavy blow to the Midway air base. Two wilting sides then slugged it out toe-to-toe in the extra 30 minutes before Town finally delivered the knock-out blow. He takes proper angles to the ball, not wasting any steps, and delivers a powerful blow when he gets there. He has worked on an exceptionally quick hand punch that delivers a blow before larger defensive tackles can get into their rushes. Chucking - the act of delivering a ball through straightening the arm in the process of bowling - has been with us since the dawn of cricket. While they all throw the ball, he delivers the ball according to the laws of cricket. The kapo raises his club, which he holds in both hands, and delivers a blow across the small of the man's back. The departing leader yesterday delivered a coruscating attack on the tormentors within his own party who he claimed had made it impossible for him to continue in office. He tackles ferociously, wins ball with his first touch and delivers perfect ball to his attack. A player delivers a ball and as he follows up is hit after delivering as he tries to follow up. One of the finest sights in all sport is a bowler with a smooth rhythmic run-up delivering the ball with an arched back and a flawless straight-arm action. The previous four seasons, the passing game was predicated on quick throws, with the quarterback often delivering the ball after three- and five-step drops. Both teams played a similar type of football with a concentration on tight marking and supporting the player in possession and delivering low ball into speedy forwards. He is quick to the ball and delivers a quality blow. Two Bradford sports enthusiasts are preparing to deliver a knock-out blow to the fitness industry when they launch a revolutionary new product. Several guards were required to repel the prisoner's attack; one soldier who came to the rescue delivered two blows to the inmate's head with a handheld radio. The gameplay dynamics are the same, allowing you to charge your energy, attack, defend, and deliver a finishing blow. Synonyms administer, deal, inflict, give, direct, aim informal land bowl, pitch, hurl, throw, cast, launch, lob discharge, fire off British Sport flight 3.1 State in a formal manner. he will deliver a lecture on endangered species he delivered himself of a sermon Example sentencesExamples The Senator says he's looking forward to delivering his acceptance speech tomorrow. I was about to enter and deliver a stiff lecture on the evils of strong drink when I thought the better of it and turned on my heels. It seems to me that reaching into the wallet is a much more powerful articulation of desire and belief than delivering the lecture. Having delivered myself of that Friday afternoon piece of advice and homily, can we turn then to the preposed orders and directions. When the mock-up ends, Hawkeye appears on screen by himself, out of costume and delivers a solemn lecture on the human costs of war. Then he appears on a platform in San Juan or Port of Spain and delivers the finest speeches calling for racial unity. He delivered himself of this speech with the air of one who has solved a great truth. He recalls delivering a lecture at the University of Nottingham. Last night, back in the city to deliver a lecture, he repeated his grim warnings. By the same token he has well-honed skills of debate and a hectoring, let-me-do-it-right-for-you manner when delivering his otherwise glib answers. He opted to deliver a stern lecture on good manners. After years of distinguished study, he begins delivering lectures of his own, offering unique, insightful interpretations of Islamic texts. Formal speeches were delivered at the main gate but were drowned out by a low flying army helicopter. Knowing that a poor performance would reignite the whispering campaign against him, he spoke in a leaden manner before delivering a blunt ‘modernise or die’ message. The manner in which she delivers her message is most interesting. The funny thing is that every time, these pronouncements are delivered in a lecture. This unpretentious poetess does not go about lecturing or delivering sermons in high places. Who, for example, is the young woman economist, Australian by the sound of her accent, who delivers long lectures on how the world economy functions? Even as he was delivering his welcome home speech it had already been decided to send the SAS to another war. And besides them, there's the invitation-only crowd at the Banqueting House in Whitehall, to whom he will deliver the only formal speech of his visit. Synonyms utter, give, make, read, recite, broadcast, give voice to, voice, speak, declaim pronounce, announce, declare, proclaim, hand down, bring in, return, render, set forth 3.2 (of a judge or court) give (a judgement or verdict) the court was due to deliver its verdict Example sentencesExamples Moreover, in delivering his verdict the judge can refuse to explain the basis of his decision if he deems national security could be compromised. This is just like a court delivering its ruling without listening to evidence and submissions by the concerned parties under the excuse of public request. The Constitutional Court delivered a half-right decision last Wednesday. The European judges delivered a unanimous verdict that denying a prisoner a vote does breach the ‘right to free elections’ set out in the convention. When a beautiful ruling like this is delivered by the judges, we must understand that these kinds of changes do not occur overnight. The trial judge is likely to deliver a verdict in September to the three men at the prison where they are detained. But the verdict delivered by the Court of Final Appeal said the authority will still be able to provide such facilities through another party after the listing. It is a matter of fact that the Court of Appeal delivered its decision… Visitors to the interactive exhibition can perform in front of the tough panel with the judges delivering their verdicts, more often than not trading insults among themselves. The judges are expected to deliver their verdict within weeks. In the end however convention spoke, and the delegates delivered their verdict. Against this backdrop, Roh should wait patiently until the Constitutional Court delivers its final verdict. A jury at Preston Crown Court delivered a unanimous not guilty verdict following seven-and-a-half hours of deliberation. Since the judge had delivered the verdict, he had felt permanently dazed. The jury at Leeds Crown Court delivered its verdict yesterday afternoon after hours of deliberation. The High Court recalled this observation while delivering its verdict in the case. The nine-judge Constitutional Court must deliver a final ruling on the motion within six months. The nine-member panel of judges are expected to deliver a verdict within seven days. Tonight's was incredibly moving; I actually found myself getting teary at the end, when the judges delivered their verdict - at least partly because they were so kind. The deficits court case is being heard under a special fast-track process and judges should deliver a verdict within six months. 4Assist in the birth of. the village midwife delivered the baby Example sentencesExamples A community midwife who has delivered hundreds of babies over the past 30 years has been honoured with an award for the special care she has given patients. She said: ‘We would both like to thank the two midwives who delivered the twins and everybody at the special care baby unit.’ Sean has been there for all the births and delivered the last two children, with a midwife's supervision. A midwife who has delivered hundreds of babies for mothers in the Maldon district is set to retire. Ita was the local midwife and delivered many a home birth before the Maternity Hospital era in rural parishes. A hospital's first midwife has retired after delivering more than 1,000 babies in 37 years. He turned midwife this week to deliver his first grandson. I delivered their baby seven months later. Fortunately, she was able to call her mother Carol, who turned midwife to help deliver baby Abigail on the kitchen floor. He had to deliver the 6lb 5oz baby himself on the living room floor. He said that during his career he had delivered something like 8,000 babies, roughly equivalent to the town's population today. They told my mum that they had to deliver the baby straight away to save one of our lives. ‘All of my three children were born at home, delivered by the same midwife who lived near my home,’ she recalled. I've been a mid-wife for twenty years now and have delivered hundreds of babies. The delivery room nurse, the resident, and the attending physician assisted as the plaintiff delivered a healthy baby boy. I don't know if this proves anything either, but I myself was delivered by a local midwife, who apparently taught herself everything she knew. He was in charge of the elderly care unit at the local cottage hospital and did his own obstetric care, delivering many Bridlington babies. Synonyms give birth to, bear, be delivered of, have, bring into the world, bring forth 4.1 Give birth to. the number of women delivering their babies in hospitals increased Example sentencesExamples At length, however, she was delivered of a child; but it is uncertain whether it was born alive or not. In June 2001 she was delivered of a 3.1 kg healthy boy, her seventh child and fourth caesarean. Synonyms give birth to, bear, be delivered of, have, bring into the world, bring forth North American birth informal drop archaic be brought to bed of 4.2archaic, formal Assist (a woman) in giving birth. Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge was safely delivered of a son at 4.24 p.m. 5deliver someone/something fromSave, rescue, or set someone or something free from. deliver us from the nightmare of junk mail Example sentencesExamples His strong performance delivers the movie from all-out silliness; this is quite a feat, given that he's required to utter lines like ‘That's a sandstorm!’ But the region will pay a heavy price for his folly unless the scandal swirling around him delivers the world from his Machiavellian designs. He credits his party with delivering the city from debt and unemployment to the promised land of productivity and job creation. And you can't really imagine the people round here jumping up and down with excitement shouting: ‘Hooray, she has delivered our children from the scourge of rickets.’ The UN Charter spoke of delivering the world from the scourge of war - we never learn. He says self-help groups have delivered people from the clutches of moneylenders who charge 120 per cent as interest. The Alliance deserves some credit; within the Alliance platform are the means to address delivering our government from its bureaucratic nightmare. The Bishop is delivering his congregation from credit card debt one family at a time - using only donations from other congregants. She prayed the bell would save her and deliver her from this torment, but her prayer fell on mute ears and there were still seven minutes when she reached the front and turned to face the class. Councillors and public figures struggle to hide their pride in delivering their city from an Aids epidemic. Synonyms save, rescue, set free, free, liberate, release, set at liberty, set loose, extricate, discharge, emancipate, redeem, ransom literary disenthral historical manumit Phrases deliver the goods informal Provide that which is promised or expected. the command economy can't deliver the goods Example sentencesExamples Although rather sparse by Hong Kong standards, when the hand-to-hand kicks in, it delivers the goods. I did this for a while and it more than delivers the goods. It's much more difficult to deliver the goods when everyone expects it of you. A very darkly entertaining fairy tale that was a little bit deeper, but still delivers the goods. It's a darker, more complex film that seriously promises to deliver the goods, but comes up a bit short. At 336.5p, the shares could go higher if the company delivers the goods. Open economies and open societies are good provided they deliver the goods for ordinary working families. The problem is the gap between the promises of basic discovery and the clinical trials that deliver the goods. It has now reverted to a more traditional process and this is expected to deliver the goods by the first half of next year. The ministers and MPs are aware that people's expectations are very high as they are expected to deliver the goods. Synonyms fulfil, live up to, carry out, carry through, implement, make good Derivatives deliverer noun dɪˈlɪvərədəˈlɪv(ə)rər Those ministers who are up to the job have to be liberated to become the leaders and deliverers of change. Example sentencesExamples Quicksilver, liquid metal, nickname for Mercury, keeper of eloquence and dexterity, protector of roads, deliverer of the messages we need. From beneficial protectors to deliverers of evil, owls have been important in human superstitions across cultures throughout the world. Writing in 1888, historian Henry Howe said that when MacGahan returned to Bulgaria in 1877, he was everywhere hailed as a liberator and deliverer. The concept of a redeemer, a liberator, or a deliverer is much closer to the state of mind that is prevalent today than is the innocuous and ambiguous term information. Origin Middle English: from Old French delivrer, based on Latin de- 'away' + liberare 'set free'. Deliver goes back to Latin liber ‘free’, which is also the source of liberty. The word has been used for taking and handing over letters and goods since the late Middle Ages. The phrase to deliver the goods, ‘to provide what is promised and expected’, is from the USA, and the first known examples are from political debate in the 1870s. Highwaymen really did tell their victims to stand and deliver—the phrase is mentioned in an early 18th-century account of the lives of highwaymen. verb.1 phr. Definition of deliver in US English: deliver verbdəˈlɪvərdəˈlivər [with object] 1Bring and hand over (a letter, parcel, or ordered goods) to the proper recipient or address. the products should be delivered on time no object we'll deliver direct to your door Example sentencesExamples The only thing at this time that I care to divulge is that my letter from Raychel instructed me to deliver her letters to their rightful recipients. The company's proposed radical changes to the way it delivers letters were aimed at saving €20m a year. This morning's good mood severely dented by incompetent carriers who have repeatedly failed to deliver parcels on time and to the right address. She recalls an experience at customs. when a parcel was not delivered, and she had to go and collect it herself from their office. What happens if someone writes the wrong address on an envelope, or the postman delivers the letter to the wrong door? The various races included children dressed as postmen with sling bags delivering letters at the finishing line, or as bakers who sieved flour before scampering to finish the race. What the council has done is carried out a poll that relied on letters being delivered to homes in the area and people taking the time to return a slip. Then last Friday they delivered a bunch of letters and packages some dating back to the past two years. The handwritten message is scanned and sent to the destination and the letter is delivered just as a telegram. Taking the initiative, including undertaking tasks beyond responsibilities and identifying new approaches to producing and delivering goods and services. He sent a messenger to deliver the letter to the edge of the barrier and throw it to one of the prisoners within the dome. Suddenly, regular citizens could go to town when they wanted, get supplies when they needed them, deliver goods directly to sellers. Yet, last December we had serious backlogs in the delivery of Christmas mail when one million letters were delivered late. Whilst in Britain a paper round is done by spotty 13 yr old kids before school, here it is a proper job and the delivery guys also double up by delivering goods during the days. The postman is used to delivering mysterious parcels, packets and letters to the old ranch house, mostly from faraway places with strange sounding names. The unexpected thrill of the reminder (something I blame on my father, who appeared to appreciate the postman delivering red letters rather too much) is important to me. Taxi drivers or drivers delivering goods around shops are among the most frequently used ‘mules’ since they would seem least suspicious. It is understood that 11 workers have been given notice, with some handed the news in a letter delivered by courier to their door late at night. We recommend that customers only deliver goods to the billing address. I want you to deliver this letter for me and bring a response back. Synonyms bring, take, take round, convey, carry, transport, distribute, drop-ship hand over, turn over, transfer, make over, sign over 2Provide (something promised or expected) he had been able to deliver votes in huge numbers she's waiting for him to deliver on his promise Example sentencesExamples For the minister, it is the first major test of whether he can bring the most powerful lobby group in the industry onside and deliver the promises set out in the health strategy. As respecters of rules and regulations they also expected their politicians to say what they mean, and deliver on their promises. We had a window of opportunity to deliver the promises to the town and the members and I as chairman feel I let the club down by failing to do so. There will be no ‘business as usual’, since his supporters expect him to deliver on the many promises he has made during the campaign. If the government is to deliver its promise to cut unemployment by 40,000, it will need to create 80,000 jobs. In Britain, economic worries centred on the alarming prospect of pensions failing to deliver their optimistic promises. ‘I have promised people to continue the reforms and I am sure I can deliver my promises,’ he said after voting. They must also monitor commitments closely, and deliver on promises. He doesn't expect them to deliver on any promise they will make. It employs 18 full and part time trained staff and prides itself on delivering its promises by providing quality products at competitive prices. Besides delivering the promise of simplifying our life, these principles will perhaps begin to break the barriers imposed by antiquated rules. He said the achievements of the past five years were an effective guarantee that he would deliver his promises. All in all, this book does deliver its promise, to fulfill a student's point locating needs. If he fails to deliver on his election promises, chances are he could find himself confronted by another angry recall. Until the Government and local councils deliver on their election promises of providing reliable and affordable alternatives to the car, situations like this will continue. Beats me how anyone could ever expect a politician to deliver on the promise of a national stadium, but there you are. People expect us to deliver on our election promises. The task of providing evidence that a service will deliver its promises becomes more difficult where the service is highly intangible. However, he pointed out that, over the last four years, the Government has more than delivered its pre-election promises on tax cuts. There is a reasonable choice of the old favourites that crop up on almost all Italian menus, but rarely deliver the promise or spirit of their names. Synonyms provide, supply, furnish fulfil, live up to, carry out, carry through, implement, make good 2.1 Formally hand over (someone) they would have delivered him to the Germans for vengeance Example sentencesExamples I looked down on figures who, with their consorts, advisers, bureaucrats and academics, had delivered their own people to the vampires. Churchill was rejected by the people after delivering us through the horrors of world war. It took both reflexes acting in concert to deliver the people of the Chagos archipelago into exile. If he can deliver the British people to the Euro leaders, the Presidency of Europe awaits him. 2.2deliver someone/something up Surrender someone or something. to deliver up to justice a member of his own family Example sentencesExamples He who did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? See and read Matthew 10: 16-21: ‘They will deliver you up,’ etc. Certain persons betrayed him, demanded his death, brought him to trial, condemned and delivered him up, mocked, tormented, and executed him. In any other civilised country, the head of the phone company would be delivered up on a platter for these serious infrastructure failures. Beware of them, for they will deliver you up to councils, and flog you in their synagogues, and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear testimony before them. I caught the resignation attitude myself as I delivered the car up for its annual service and road test. Whenever bondsmen choose to do so, they may seize the defendant and deliver him up in their discharge, and if that cannot be done at once, they may imprison him until it can be done. Had he feared she would deliver him up to the police? If she wasn't beating us herself, she was delivering us up to the nuns for a whack. Funnily enough, this doctor now claims that she was well treated and he was going to deliver her up to the Americans anyway. 2.3Law Acknowledge that one intends to be bound by (a deed), either explicitly by declaration or implicitly by formal handover. Example sentencesExamples The plaintiff had delivered a formal written notice within time, but the notice had failed to state the grounds of appeal or the facts on which he relied. An affidavit of the defendant was delivered later in August 2004. It is no doubt true that a deed may be delivered on a condition that it is not to be operative until some event happens or some condition is performed. The defendant having delivered its affidavits of documents and having appointed counsel, the motion to strike the statements of defence or post security for costs is dismissed. In witness of which this document has been signed and sealed as a deed and delivered the date and year first before written. 3Launch or aim (a blow, ball, or attack) the pitcher winds up to deliver the ball Example sentencesExamples Jeremey landed, ducked the last attack and delivered an uppercut, sending the attacker sprawling to the ground five feet away. Two wilting sides then slugged it out toe-to-toe in the extra 30 minutes before Town finally delivered the knock-out blow. Two Bradford sports enthusiasts are preparing to deliver a knock-out blow to the fitness industry when they launch a revolutionary new product. One of the finest sights in all sport is a bowler with a smooth rhythmic run-up delivering the ball with an arched back and a flawless straight-arm action. Both teams played a similar type of football with a concentration on tight marking and supporting the player in possession and delivering low ball into speedy forwards. The kapo raises his club, which he holds in both hands, and delivers a blow across the small of the man's back. He takes proper angles to the ball, not wasting any steps, and delivers a powerful blow when he gets there. While they all throw the ball, he delivers the ball according to the laws of cricket. So far he had weathered numerous attacks, emerged unscathed and delivered a heavy blow to the Midway air base. He tackles ferociously, wins ball with his first touch and delivers perfect ball to his attack. The gameplay dynamics are the same, allowing you to charge your energy, attack, defend, and deliver a finishing blow. A player delivers a ball and as he follows up is hit after delivering as he tries to follow up. He is quick to the ball and delivers a quality blow. Several guards were required to repel the prisoner's attack; one soldier who came to the rescue delivered two blows to the inmate's head with a handheld radio. The previous four seasons, the passing game was predicated on quick throws, with the quarterback often delivering the ball after three- and five-step drops. The departing leader yesterday delivered a coruscating attack on the tormentors within his own party who he claimed had made it impossible for him to continue in office. He has worked on an exceptionally quick hand punch that delivers a blow before larger defensive tackles can get into their rushes. Chucking - the act of delivering a ball through straightening the arm in the process of bowling - has been with us since the dawn of cricket. He looked lively, sharp and delivers the ball ever so early. He's right: physicists have built wind tunnels to present theses on the art of delivering a dead ball. Synonyms administer, deal, inflict, give, direct, aim bowl, pitch, hurl, throw, cast, launch, lob 3.1 State in a formal manner. he delivered himself of a sermon the President will deliver a speech Example sentencesExamples Having delivered myself of that Friday afternoon piece of advice and homily, can we turn then to the preposed orders and directions. He opted to deliver a stern lecture on good manners. The manner in which she delivers her message is most interesting. Even as he was delivering his welcome home speech it had already been decided to send the SAS to another war. He delivered himself of this speech with the air of one who has solved a great truth. Who, for example, is the young woman economist, Australian by the sound of her accent, who delivers long lectures on how the world economy functions? By the same token he has well-honed skills of debate and a hectoring, let-me-do-it-right-for-you manner when delivering his otherwise glib answers. Last night, back in the city to deliver a lecture, he repeated his grim warnings. It seems to me that reaching into the wallet is a much more powerful articulation of desire and belief than delivering the lecture. And besides them, there's the invitation-only crowd at the Banqueting House in Whitehall, to whom he will deliver the only formal speech of his visit. Knowing that a poor performance would reignite the whispering campaign against him, he spoke in a leaden manner before delivering a blunt ‘modernise or die’ message. When the mock-up ends, Hawkeye appears on screen by himself, out of costume and delivers a solemn lecture on the human costs of war. He recalls delivering a lecture at the University of Nottingham. This unpretentious poetess does not go about lecturing or delivering sermons in high places. The Senator says he's looking forward to delivering his acceptance speech tomorrow. I was about to enter and deliver a stiff lecture on the evils of strong drink when I thought the better of it and turned on my heels. The funny thing is that every time, these pronouncements are delivered in a lecture. Then he appears on a platform in San Juan or Port of Spain and delivers the finest speeches calling for racial unity. Formal speeches were delivered at the main gate but were drowned out by a low flying army helicopter. After years of distinguished study, he begins delivering lectures of his own, offering unique, insightful interpretations of Islamic texts. Synonyms utter, give, make, read, recite, broadcast, give voice to, voice, speak, declaim 3.2 (of a judge or court) give (a judgment or verdict) the judge delivered his verdict Example sentencesExamples The High Court recalled this observation while delivering its verdict in the case. The trial judge is likely to deliver a verdict in September to the three men at the prison where they are detained. This is just like a court delivering its ruling without listening to evidence and submissions by the concerned parties under the excuse of public request. But the verdict delivered by the Court of Final Appeal said the authority will still be able to provide such facilities through another party after the listing. The European judges delivered a unanimous verdict that denying a prisoner a vote does breach the ‘right to free elections’ set out in the convention. The judges are expected to deliver their verdict within weeks. Moreover, in delivering his verdict the judge can refuse to explain the basis of his decision if he deems national security could be compromised. Tonight's was incredibly moving; I actually found myself getting teary at the end, when the judges delivered their verdict - at least partly because they were so kind. Visitors to the interactive exhibition can perform in front of the tough panel with the judges delivering their verdicts, more often than not trading insults among themselves. The nine-judge Constitutional Court must deliver a final ruling on the motion within six months. Since the judge had delivered the verdict, he had felt permanently dazed. The nine-member panel of judges are expected to deliver a verdict within seven days. The jury at Leeds Crown Court delivered its verdict yesterday afternoon after hours of deliberation. When a beautiful ruling like this is delivered by the judges, we must understand that these kinds of changes do not occur overnight. The deficits court case is being heard under a special fast-track process and judges should deliver a verdict within six months. The Constitutional Court delivered a half-right decision last Wednesday. It is a matter of fact that the Court of Appeal delivered its decision… In the end however convention spoke, and the delegates delivered their verdict. Against this backdrop, Roh should wait patiently until the Constitutional Court delivers its final verdict. A jury at Preston Crown Court delivered a unanimous not guilty verdict following seven-and-a-half hours of deliberation. 4Assist in the birth of. the village midwife delivered the baby Example sentencesExamples He was in charge of the elderly care unit at the local cottage hospital and did his own obstetric care, delivering many Bridlington babies. ‘All of my three children were born at home, delivered by the same midwife who lived near my home,’ she recalled. He had to deliver the 6lb 5oz baby himself on the living room floor. They told my mum that they had to deliver the baby straight away to save one of our lives. He turned midwife this week to deliver his first grandson. A hospital's first midwife has retired after delivering more than 1,000 babies in 37 years. The delivery room nurse, the resident, and the attending physician assisted as the plaintiff delivered a healthy baby boy. I don't know if this proves anything either, but I myself was delivered by a local midwife, who apparently taught herself everything she knew. Fortunately, she was able to call her mother Carol, who turned midwife to help deliver baby Abigail on the kitchen floor. He said that during his career he had delivered something like 8,000 babies, roughly equivalent to the town's population today. She said: ‘We would both like to thank the two midwives who delivered the twins and everybody at the special care baby unit.’ A community midwife who has delivered hundreds of babies over the past 30 years has been honoured with an award for the special care she has given patients. A midwife who has delivered hundreds of babies for mothers in the Maldon district is set to retire. I've been a mid-wife for twenty years now and have delivered hundreds of babies. Ita was the local midwife and delivered many a home birth before the Maternity Hospital era in rural parishes. I delivered their baby seven months later. Sean has been there for all the births and delivered the last two children, with a midwife's supervision. Synonyms give birth to, bear, be delivered of, have, bring into the world, bring forth 4.1 Give birth to. the number of women delivering their babies in hospitals increased Example sentencesExamples At length, however, she was delivered of a child; but it is uncertain whether it was born alive or not. In June 2001 she was delivered of a 3.1 kg healthy boy, her seventh child and fourth caesarean. Synonyms give birth to, bear, be delivered of, have, bring into the world, bring forth 4.2formal, archaic Assist (a woman) in giving birth. she was delivered of her second child 5deliver someone/something fromSave, rescue, or set someone or something free from. deliver us from misery Example sentencesExamples The Bishop is delivering his congregation from credit card debt one family at a time - using only donations from other congregants. He credits his party with delivering the city from debt and unemployment to the promised land of productivity and job creation. And you can't really imagine the people round here jumping up and down with excitement shouting: ‘Hooray, she has delivered our children from the scourge of rickets.’ But the region will pay a heavy price for his folly unless the scandal swirling around him delivers the world from his Machiavellian designs. His strong performance delivers the movie from all-out silliness; this is quite a feat, given that he's required to utter lines like ‘That's a sandstorm!’ The Alliance deserves some credit; within the Alliance platform are the means to address delivering our government from its bureaucratic nightmare. The UN Charter spoke of delivering the world from the scourge of war - we never learn. Councillors and public figures struggle to hide their pride in delivering their city from an Aids epidemic. He says self-help groups have delivered people from the clutches of moneylenders who charge 120 per cent as interest. She prayed the bell would save her and deliver her from this torment, but her prayer fell on mute ears and there were still seven minutes when she reached the front and turned to face the class. Synonyms save, rescue, set free, free, liberate, release, set at liberty, set loose, extricate, discharge, emancipate, redeem, ransom Phrases deliver the goods informal Provide what is promised or expected. Example sentencesExamples At 336.5p, the shares could go higher if the company delivers the goods. The problem is the gap between the promises of basic discovery and the clinical trials that deliver the goods. It's much more difficult to deliver the goods when everyone expects it of you. Although rather sparse by Hong Kong standards, when the hand-to-hand kicks in, it delivers the goods. The ministers and MPs are aware that people's expectations are very high as they are expected to deliver the goods. It has now reverted to a more traditional process and this is expected to deliver the goods by the first half of next year. I did this for a while and it more than delivers the goods. It's a darker, more complex film that seriously promises to deliver the goods, but comes up a bit short. A very darkly entertaining fairy tale that was a little bit deeper, but still delivers the goods. Open economies and open societies are good provided they deliver the goods for ordinary working families. Synonyms fulfil, live up to, carry out, carry through, implement, make good Origin Middle English: from Old French delivrer, based on Latin de- ‘away’ + liberare ‘set free’. verb.1 phr.
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