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# delivery

«delivery» in Mova's school dictionary: **Taking letters, parcels or goods to the place they are…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a delivery, deliveries)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Taking letters, parcels or goods to the place they are sent to. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delivery/#m1)

2) Something that is delivered: "We got a delivery." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delivery/#m2)

3) The way someone speaks to an audience or bowls a ball in cricket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delivery/#m3)

4) The birth of a baby. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delivery/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, delivery drivers bring parcels, food and shopping; some charge a delivery fee. In maths, delivery problems ask about time, distance, cost and how many items per van. In cricket, a delivery is one ball bowled. Phrases: home delivery, free delivery, delivery van, delivery driver, pizza delivery, on delivery.

### examples

- The delivery arrived this morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delivery/#x1)
- Free delivery on orders over 50 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delivery/#x2)
- The delivery driver left the parcel at the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delivery/#x3)
- We ordered pizza for delivery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delivery/#x4)
- The van makes 30 deliveries a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delivery/#x5)
- Her speech had a clear, confident delivery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delivery/#x6)
- The bowler's next delivery was very fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delivery/#x7)

### note

Countable: one delivery, two deliveries (y to ies). The verb is "deliver". Safety: do not open the door to a delivery person if you are home alone; tell an adult. In maths, "free delivery" means no extra cost is added; otherwise add the delivery charge to the total.

### In the corpora

- [Without that delivery the blossom would never become an apple.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food/1/)
- [A real worker or delivery person will come back later or leave a note.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/35-home-alone/24/)
- [People who want to get into a home sometimes pretend to be workers or delivery drivers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/116-home-alone-keys-and-garden-play/20/)
- [Texts about a parcel that could not be delivered are a very common scam; adults check deliveries on the official site.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/282-chain-messages-lures-and-scam-messages/16/)
- [It turned out he had driven a delivery van for thirty years and «knew how corners work».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «delivery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/delivery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.