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redelivery

nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — delivery sits at #1,516Too rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

A redelivery is a second attempt to deliver something. Arrange a redelivery, book the redelivery, a free redelivery.

It is what a card through the door offers when nobody was in, and most carriers now let you choose the day online. Every redelivery costs the carrier as much as the first attempt, which is why lockers and pickup shops exist.

Definitions of redelivery

  1. 1nounredeliveryA second attempt to deliver something.B2

    “I missed the courier, so I booked a redelivery for Saturday morning.”

redelivery is a delivery.

Where it comes from

Re-, again, plus delivery, from Old French delivrer, to set free or hand over.

  1. Old French

    delivrer

  2. Middle English

    deliveri

  3. English

    delivery

  4. English, today

    redelivery

From re + delivery. delivery comes from Middle English deliveri et al., from Anglo-Norman -, from Old French delivrer.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Bank & Post Office

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redelivery in the wild

  • Users can also receive USPS Tracking updates for incoming packages, provide delivery instructions, manage notifications, and schedule redelivery directly from Informed Delivery.

    Informed Delivery

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 delivrer family

deliverdelivery

redelivery — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others