deliveries

Variant of delivery

noun pl. deliveries

  1. a giving or handing over; transfer
  2. a distributing, as of goods or mail
  3. a giving birth; childbirth
  4. any giving or sending forth
  5. the act or manner of giving a speech, striking a blow, throwing a ball, etc.
  6. something delivered or to be delivered, as mail, goods, a pitched ball, etc.
  7. Now Rare a setting free, or rescuing
  8. Law
    1. the irrevocable transfer of a deed or other instrument of conveyance
    2. the transfer of goods or interest in goods from one person to another

Origin: ME deliveri < OFr delivré, pp. of délivrer: see deliver

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