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deliverable

UK/dɪˈlɪvɹəbəɫ/
nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #15,000 of 15,258Too rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: deliverables

A deliverable is a specific thing a project has promised to produce. Agree the deliverables, a key deliverable, miss a deliverable.

It is project-management language and it exists to force vagueness into something checkable: a report, a working prototype, a signed-off design. A goal is not a deliverable unless you can point at the object that proves it was met.

Definitions of deliverable

  1. 1noundeliverableA specific thing a project has promised to produce.C1

    “The first deliverable is a written report, due at the end of March.”

deliverable is an output.

Where it comes from

Deliver plus -able, from Old French delivrer, to set free, from Latin liberare. The noun use is recent and commercial.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *h₁lewdʰ-

  2. Latin

    dē

  3. Old French

    delivrer

  4. Middle English

    deliveren

  5. English

    deliver

  6. English, today

    deliverable

Built from

  • līberō · Latin — to set free

From deliver + able. deliver comes from Middle English deliveren, from Anglo-Norman - and Old French delivrer, from Latin dē + līberō (“to set free”). Compare typologically dispatch, analyzable as dis- + impeach, from impedicō (also akin to impede).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Business & Money

Practise this word

deliverable in the wild

  • Programming is nearly 100 percent satellite deliverable and produced by Northwestern Media.

    KTIS (AM)

  • The deliverable of a management consultant is usually recommendations for achieving a company objective, leading to a company project.

    Consulting firm

  • A deliverable could be a report, a document, a software product, a server upgrade or any other building block of an overall project.

    Deliverable

  • A deliverable may be composed of multiple smaller deliverables.

    Deliverable

  • Address Management System (AMS) is the United States Postal Service master database of deliverable addresses.

    Address Management System

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the līberō family

deliver

deliverable — used about once every 159,543 pages · #15,000 · point at the bar for the others

  • deliverance