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What (who) is Deliver - definition
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deliver
v. to actually hand an object, money or document to another.
deliver
(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
deliver
¦ verb
1. bring and hand over (a letter or goods) to the appropriate recipient.
formally hand over (someone).
2. provide (something promised or expected).
Law acknowledge that one intends to be bound by (a deed), either explicitly by declaration or implicitly by formal handover.
3. launch or aim (a blow or attack).
4. state or present in a formal manner: he will deliver a lecture on endangered species.
5. assist in the birth of.
(also be delivered of) give birth to.
6. save or set free: deliver us from the nightmare of junk paper.
Derivatives
deliverable adjective &noun
deliverer noun
Origin
ME: from OFr. delivrer, based on L. de- 'away' + liberare 'set free'.
Examples of use of Deliver
1. Yet Blair cannot deliver, Brown will not deliver, but Cameron could deliver.
2. We can‘t deliver peace by terrorism, never can we deliver peace by killing people.
3. Boeing expects to deliver 2'0 airplanes this year, while Airbus expects to deliver 370.
4. "If he fails to deliver on this issue, he‘ll have to deliver on some significant other issue," said Rogusky.
5. Markets cannot deliver aid to those who need it, although they can deliver excellent pictures of their suffering.