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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

Etymology

Origin of redeliver

First recorded in 1485–95; re- + deliver

Example Sentences

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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

The purchaser of Telemaque availed himself of this law to redeliver him to Captain Vesey on his return voyage to Sto.

From Right on the Scaffold, or The Martyrs of 1822 The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 7 by Grimké, Archibald Henry

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

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