deliver
pronunciation
How to pronounce deliver in British English:
UK [dɪˈlɪvə(r)]
How to pronounce deliver in American English:
US [dɪˈlɪvər]
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- Verb:
- deliver (a speech, oration, or idea)
- bring to a destination, make a delivery
- to surrender someone or something to another
- free from harm or evil
- hand over to the authorities of another country
- pass down
- utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.)
- save from sins
- carry out or perform
- relinquish possession or control over
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- give birth (to a newborn)
Word Origin
- deliver
- deliver: [13] To deliver something is etymologically to ‘set it free’. The word comes via Old French delivrer from late Latin dēlīberāre, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix dē- and Latin līberāre ‘set free’, a derivative of the adjective līber ‘free’. Its meaning developed through ‘set free’ to ‘give up, surrender’ and finally ‘hand over to someone else’. (Classical Latin dēlīberāre, source of English deliberate [15], is an entirely different verb, derived from Latin lībra ‘scales’.)=> liberate
- deliver (v.)
- c. 1200, "save, rescue, set free, liberate," from Old French delivrer "to set free; remove; save, preserve; hand over (goods)," also used of childbirth, from Late Latin deliberare, from de- "away" (see de-) + Latin liberare "to free" (see liberal (adj.)). Childbirth sense in English, "to bring (a woman) to childbirth," is from c. 1300. Sense of "hand over, give, give up, yield" is c. 1300. in English, which brings it in opposition to its root. Meaning "project, throw" is 1590s. Related: Delivered; delivering.
Example
- 1. Can mr osborne deliver the savings he promises ?
- 2. France still relied on couriers to deliver vital information .
- 3. Bottlenecks in exporting countries will hamper its ability to deliver .
- 4. He used to deliver food to the world trade centre .
- 5. And march to their door with confidence and hand deliver that notice .