redeliver

American  

[ree-di-liv-er] / ˌri dɪˈlɪv ər /

verb (used with object)

1. to deliver again.

2. to deliver back; return.

---

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

Roseveldt was commissioned to redeliver the lute, and to entreat the lady's acceptance of it.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden