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deliver verb [ dɪˈlɪvə ]

• bring and hand over (a letter, parcel, or goods) to the proper recipient or address.
• "the products should be delivered on time"
Similar: bring, take, take round, convey, carry, transport, distribute, drop-ship, send, dispatch, remit, hand over, turn over, transfer, make over, sign over, surrender, give up, yield, relinquish, cede, render up, consign, commit, entrust, trust, commend,
Opposite: collect,
• provide (something promised or expected).
• "he had been able to deliver votes in huge numbers"
Similar: provide, supply, furnish, fulfil, live up to, carry out, carry through, implement, make good, achieve, come up with, deliver the goods, come across,
• launch or aim (a blow, ball, or attack).
• "he delivered a punch to the man's belly"
Similar: administer, deal, inflict, give, direct, aim, land, bowl, pitch, hurl, throw, cast, launch, lob, discharge, fire off, flight,
• assist in the birth of.
• "the village midwife delivered the baby"
• save, rescue, or set someone or something free from.
• "deliver us from the nightmare of junk mail"
Similar: save, rescue, set free, free, liberate, release, set at liberty, set loose, extricate, discharge, emancipate, redeem, ransom, disenthral, manumit,
Origin: Middle English: from Old French delivrer, based on Latin de- ‘away’ + liberare ‘set free’.

deliver the goods

• provide that which is promised or expected.
"the command economy can't deliver the goods"



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