(delivers, delivering, delivered)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you deliver something somewhere, you take it there.
The Canadians plan to deliver more food to southern Somalia...
The spy returned to deliver a second batch of classified documents...
VERB: V n to n, V n
2.
If you deliver something that you have promised to do, make, or produce, you do, make, or produce it.
They have yet to show that they can really deliver working technologies...
We don't promise what we can't deliver.
VERB: V n, V
3.
If you deliver a person or thing into someone's care, you give them responsibility for that person or thing. (FORMAL)
Mrs Montgomery was delivered into Mr Hinchcliffe's care...
David delivered Holly gratefully into the woman's outstretched arms...
= hand over
VERB: be V-ed into/to n, V n into/to n
4.
If you deliver a lecture or speech, you give it in public. (FORMAL)
The president will deliver a speech about schools...
VERB: V n
5.
When someone delivers a baby, they help the woman who is giving birth to the baby.
Her husband had to deliver the baby himself.
VERB: V n
6.
If someone delivers a blow to someone else, they hit them. (WRITTEN)
Those blows to the head could have been delivered by a woman.
VERB: be V-ed, also V n