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redeliver

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[ree-di-liv-er] / ˌri dɪˈlɪv ər /

verb (used with object)

  1. to deliver again.

  2. to deliver back; return.


Other Word Forms


Etymology

Origin of redeliver

First recorded in 1485–95; re- + deliver


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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

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 John Glover

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 Samuel Smiles

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