Definition of delivery

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Delivery (n.) The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon..

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Return :: Return (n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court..
Cranioclast :: Cranioclast (n.) An instrument for crushing the head of a fetus, to facilitate delivery in difficult eases..
Hypothecate :: Hypothecate (v. t.) To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry..
Time :: Time (n.) Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition..
Tradition :: Tradition (n.) The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials..
Pronunciation :: Pronunciation (n.) The art of manner of uttering a discourse publicly with propriety and gracefulness; -- now called delivery.
Ten-strike :: Ten-strike (n.) A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball.
Surrenderee :: Surrender (n.) The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition..
Resolute :: Resolute (n.) Redelivery; repayment.
Lighter :: Lighter (n.) A large boat or barge, mainly used in unloading or loading vessels which can not reach the wharves at the place of shipment or delivery..
Mail :: Mail (n.) The bag or bags with the letters, papers, papers, or other matter contained therein, conveyed under public authority from one post office to another; the whole system of appliances used by government in the conveyance and delivery of mail matter..
Call :: Call (n.) The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on..
Issue :: Issue (n.) The act of sending out, or causing to go forth; delivery; issuance; as, the issue of an order from a commanding officer; the issue of money from a treasury..
Nondelivery :: Nondelivery (n.) A neglect or failure of delivery; omission of delivery.
Payable :: Payable (a.) That may be discharged or settled by delivery of value.
Accouchement :: Accouchement (n.) Delivery in childbe.
Impression :: Impression (n.) Impressiveness; emphasis of delivery.
Backwardation :: Backwardation (n.) The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango..
Bear :: Bear (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
Gestation :: Gestation (n.) The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy.
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