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Delivery

Delivery Meaning & Definition
Delivery Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Delivery?

[n] recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives"
[n] (baseball) the throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter
[n] the act of delivering a child
[n] the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail); "his reluctant delivery of bad news"
[n] the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another
[n] your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"
[n] the event of giving birth; "she had a difficult delivery"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Delivery: bringing | deliverance | legal transfer | livery | manner of speaking | obstetrical delivery | pitch | rescue | saving | speech

Related Terms | Find terms related to Delivery: abalienation | accommodation | accordance | accouchement | affranchisement | alienation | amortization | amortizement | articulation | assignation | assignment | attack | award | awarding | bargain and sale | barter | bearing | bequeathal | bestowal | bestowment | birth | birth throes | birthing | blessed event | break | breakout | cession | childbearing | childbed | childbirth | communication | concession | conduction | conferment | conferral | confinement | consignation | consignment | contagion | contribution | convection | conveyance | conveyancing | deeding | deliverance | demise | deportation | diapedesis | diffusion | disenthrallment | disposal | disposition | dissemination | distribution | donation | emancipation | Emancipation Proclamation | emergence | endowment | enfeoffment | enfranchisement | enunciation | escape | escapism | evasion | exchange | execution | export | exportation | expression | expulsion | extradition | extrication | flight | freeing | furnishment | gay liberation | genesis | getaway | gifting | giving | giving birth | grant | granting | hatching | having a baby | impartation | impartment | import | importation | interchange | investiture | issuance | issue | jailbreak | labor | leak | leakage | lease and release | liberality | liberation | lifesaving | manumission | metastasis | metathesis | metempsychosis | migration | multiparity | mutual transfer | nascency | nativity | offer | osmosis | outlet | parturition | passage | passing over | performance | perfusion | phonation | presentation | presentment | prisonbreak | pronunciation | provision | ransom | recovery | redemption | release | rescue | retrieval | riddance | sale | salvage | salvation | saving | setting at liberty | setting-free | settlement | settling | spread | spreading | subscription | supplying | surrender | the Nativity | the stork | trading | transduction | transfer | transfer of property | transference | transfusion | transit | transition | translation | translocation | transmigration | transmigration of souls | transmission | transmittal | transmittance | transplacement | transplantation | transport | transportation | transposal | transposition | travail | travel | utterance | vent | vesting | vocalization | voicing | vouchsafement

See Also | abdominal delivery | accouchement | address | bailment | balk | ball | baseball | baseball game | beanball | beaner | bender | birth | breaking ball | breech birth | breech delivery | breech presentation | bullet | caesarean | caesarean delivery | caesarean section | catch | cesarean | cesarean delivery | cesarean section | cesarian | cesarian section | change-of-pace | change-of-pace ball | change-up | childbearing | childbirth | consignment | conveyance | conveyance of title | conveyancing | conveying | C-section | curve | curve ball | deed | duster | effort | elocution | exploit | expressive style | fastball | feat | forceps delivery | handing over | heater | hummer | inflection | knuckleball | knuckler | lifesaving | midwifery | modulation | nascence | nascency | nativity | off-speed pitch | paralanguage | paralinguistic communication | passage | post | prosody | reclamation | recovery | redemption | reformation | retrieval | salvage | salvation | screwball | search and rescue mission | service | service of process | serving | shibboleth | sinker | smoke | spitball | spitter | strike | style | submarine ball | submarine pitch | surrender | throw | tone | tone of voice | tongue | transfer | transferral | transportation | vaginal birth | wild pitch

Delivery In Webster's Dictionary

\De*liv"er*y\, n.; pl. {Deliveries}. 1. The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon. 2. The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters. 3. The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery. 4. The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes. 5. The act of exerting one's strength or limbs. Neater limbs and freer delivery. --Sir H. Wotton. 6. The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery.

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