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

This he considered to be most unlikely; but if it should be the case, he would bind himself to repay or redeliver the bill on the books being returned.

From A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 by Smiles, Samuel

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