redeliver

American  

[ree-di-liv-er] / ˌri dɪˈlɪv ər /

verb (used with object)

1. to deliver again.

2. to deliver back; return.

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Other Word Forms

• redeliverer noun

Etymology

Origin of redeliver

First recorded in 1485–95; re- + deliver

Example Sentences

Back at the depot, a courier told Sam there was not much point trying to redeliver because couriers did not get paid for going back.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2025

So, we’re in a bit of a holding pattern, waiting for the right season to redeliver the vessel back to the United States.

From Slate • Dec. 30, 2020

And you should take any mail delivered to you by mistake, write “delivered to wrong address” on the envelope, and leave it — unopened — for your letter carrier to redeliver to the correct address.

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2016

Yet can we own ourselves beaten, and redeliver our authority?

From Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 93. August 27, 1887 by Various

And why meet him at the gates, 5 and redeliver our authorities there?

From Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge