0 the act of taking goods, letters, parcels, etc. to people's houses or places of work:
We get two deliveries of mail (= it is delivered twice) a day.
You can pay for the carpet on delivery (= when it is delivered).
We expect to take delivery of (= receive) our new car next week.
Your order is out for delivery (= it has been given to the person who will deliver it) and will be with you soon.
a delivery van
2 a birth
3 the act of taking goods, letters, or packages to people's houses or places of work:
5 the act or process of birth:
She had a difficult delivery.
6 the act of taking goods, letters, parcels, etc. to a place:
on delivery There's a 10% deposit to be paid, and then the balance has to be paid on delivery of the car.
next-day/same-day/overnight delivery The company has established links with florists across the UK for a same-day delivery service.
The supermarket rose to the challenge with cost cuts and successful expansion into internet sales and home delivery.
They make two deliveries a day.
8 the act of providing a service or supplying something to a customer:
9 a situation in which a buyer is given control of something they have bought:
For a deed to convey ownership, there must be delivery and acceptance.
10 used in the trading of futures to talk about the date when the shares or commodities (= goods) will be available to the buyer:
You have to allow for a time lag between order and delivery.
Our head office will liaise with the suppliers to ensure delivery.
$200 is payable immediately with a further $100 payable on delivery.
They've decided to hold all future deliveries until the invoice has been paid.
In particular, implementation of regulations in the private sector should be taken as a policy opportunity to improve the delivery of health care.
This is not a straightforward task, since ethical considerations and infrequency of actual shoulder dystocia deliveries limit prospective, comparative study of various manoeuvres.
The main limitations in treating metastatic disease include poor vector transduction efficiencies and difficulties in targeting remote tumour cells with systemic vector delivery.
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