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predelivery

predelivery adjective: before a delivery.

Adjective

predelivery (not comparable)

  1. Before a delivery.

Noun

predelivery (plural predeliveries)

  1. 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.1955, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Textile Procurement in the Military Services: Hearings..., page 1822
    • 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 […]1985, Compilation of Selected Energy-related Legislation, page 343

Forms of predelivery

pluralpredeliveries

Origin of predelivery

From pre- + delivery.

Questions about predelivery

What does predelivery mean?
Predelivery means before a delivery.
What part of speech is predelivery?
Predelivery can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near predelivery in the dictionary

  1. predeliver
  2. predelivered
  3. predeliveries
  4. predelivering
  5. predelivers
  6. predelivery
  7. predella
  8. predellas
  9. predelle
  10. predelusional
  11. predementia

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