delivery
/dɪˈlɪv(ə)ri
/noun (plural deliveries) [mass noun]
1The action of delivering letters, parcels, or goods: allow up to 28 days for delivery [count noun]: there will be around 15 deliveries a week...
- Later, tube systems were enlarged, and new ones opened not only for the transport of telegrams but also for individual and bulk deliveries of letters and parcels.
- Although the supply of tropical plants was down and hygiene services were disappointing, security services, parcels delivery and facilities management were very successful.
- We have to treat this matter as urgent and to request your reply within seven days of the date of delivery of this letter.
Synonyms
conveyance, carriage, transportation, transporting, transport, distribution;
dispatch, remittance;
freightage, haulage, portage, shipment
1.1 [count noun] An item or items delivered on a particular occasion: new deliveries are stacked behind older stock...
- Resorts can only be built on deserted islands, and must be of a high standard, all with their own generators, desalination plants and produce deliveries.
- Bulgarian cigarettes production and Bulgarian tobacco deliveries will depend on the market situation.
- Agents say that they sending back over fifty percent of some deliveries because their products don't sell very well.
Synonyms
consignment, load, batch;
shipment, container load, boatload, shipload, lorryload, truckload
2The process of giving birth: injuries sustained during delivery [count noun]: practically all deliveries take place in hospital...
- Spontaneous miscarriage, premature delivery and stillborn birth are possible results of an infected foetus.
- A California woman is suing a hospital for wrongful death because her husband fainted and suffered a fatal injury after helping delivery room staff give her a painkilling injection.
- Guys who have been in delivery rooms watching their wives give birth will know what I am talking about.
Synonyms
birth, childbirth
technical parturition
archaic confinement, accouchement
3 [count noun] An act of throwing, bowling, or kicking a ball, especially a cricket ball: he reached 59 runs off only 42 deliveries...
- Now to another heinous crime in sport: illegal bowling deliveries in cricket.
- Hitters have their own nominees for bowling ball pitchers, whose deliveries reverberate through their arms and bodies when they make contact.
- When he is ahead in the count, he likes to drop down to a sidearm delivery and throw a two-seam fastball or hard slider.
Synonyms
ball bowled, throw, bowl, lob, pitch
4The manner or style of giving a speech: her delivery was stilted...
- In those days, his stilted style, forced delivery, and wonky timing were virtues, reinforcing our sense of his hypothetically heartwarming kidness.
- The workshop also highlighted the importance of dialogue delivery and the manner in which it should be done.
- Rhetoric has everything to do with delivery, with speech, with performance, the act of constructing an oration simply being the first step.
Synonyms
manner of speaking, speech, pronunciation, enunciation, articulation, intonation, elocution;
utterance, presentation, recitation, recital, performance, execution;
French façon de parler
5The supply or provision of something: a mechanism for rapid delivery of bile into the duodenum...
- Water delivery and supply to any community is a costly affair.
- Each delivery was a separate supply even though payment was made each week.
- A continuous mode produces an uninterrupted beam, whereas the pulsed mode provides rapid quanta of energy delivery with a distinct pause in between.
6 Law The acknowledgement by the maker of a deed that they intend to be bound by it.He goes on to point out that the grantor may deliver to his own servant, if the grantor makes delivery, intending to make the deed his own deed.
Phrases
take delivery of
Origin
Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French delivree, feminine past participle of delivrer (see deliver).