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delivered the goods

delivered the goods is the simple past and past participle of deliver the goods.

Meaning of deliver the goods

Verb

deliver the goods (third-person singular simple present delivers the goods, present participle delivering the goods, simple past and past participle delivered the goods)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To do what was promised or expected.
    • The government promised a lot, but failed to deliver the goods.

Questions about delivered the goods

What is delivered the goods the simple past and past participle of?
Delivered the goods is the simple past and past participle of deliver the goods.

Words near delivered the goods in the dictionary

  1. Delivered Duty Unpaid
  2. Delivered Ex Quay
  3. Delivered Ex Ship
  4. delivered over into
  5. delivered over to
  6. delivered the goods
  7. delivered the message to Garcia
  8. delivered up
  9. delivered up to
  10. deliveredst
  11. deliveree

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Adapted from Wiktionary: delivered the goods (page history and authors); deliver the goods (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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