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predelivery

adj

Etymology

From pre- + delivery.

  1. derived from delivrer
  2. inherited from deliveri
  3. prefixed as predelivery — “pre + delivery”

Definitions

  1. Before a delivery.

  2. A delivery made earlier than requested or anticipated.

    • We were authorizing him, since it was not in the invitation for bids, to make those predeliveries.
    • It proposed that the current Canadian “gas bubble” be sold to export customers, either as “predeliveries” on contract volumes that would otherwise be delivered in the 1984-90 periods, or […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA