deliver

de|liv|er [ dı`lıvər ] verb ***

▸ 1 take something/someone to place

▸ 2 give formal talk

▸ 3 provide something (promised)

▸ 4 in computing

▸ 5 help woman give birth

▸ 6 give someone a hard hit

▸ 7 free someone from situation

▸ + PHRASES

1. ) transitive to take something, especially goods or letters, to a place:

The package was delivered this morning.

deliver something to something: Would you like to have the latest fashions delivered to your door?

deliver something by hand (=take a letter or package to a place yourself, rather than using the postal service)

a ) to give information or documents to someone:

The message was delivered by the Finnish ambassador.

deliver something to someone: These records should be delivered to the Registrar at the end of every financial year.

b ) to take someone to a place where they will be guarded or taken care of:

deliver someone to: He was safely delivered to his hotel.

2. ) transitive FORMAL to give a formal talk to a group of people:

deliver a speech/lecture/address: The main speech was delivered by Anne Samson.

a ) to give an official decision:

The jury returned to deliver its verdict.

3. ) intransitive or transitive to do something that you have promised to do:

No one believed that he would be able to deliver everything that he had promised.

deliver on: The president may find himself unable to deliver on tax cuts.

a ) transitive to provide a service:

These reforms will enable us to deliver health services more efficiently.

b ) transitive to win votes or support, especially for a political party:

We're counting on you to deliver votes from younger people.

4. ) transitive COMPUTING to make a computer program available:

We'll soon be delivering this software on multiple platforms.

a ) used for describing the power of a computer and what it can do:

A two-processor configuration should deliver 57 MIPS.

5. ) transitive to help a woman to give birth to a baby:

The baby was delivered by a paramedic.

6. ) transitive to hit someone hard:

deliver a blow/punch: She delivered a hefty blow to his stomach.

7. ) transitive FORMAL to free someone from an unpleasant situation:

deliver someone from something: It was another hundred years before they were finally delivered from slavery.

deliver the goods

to do something that you have promised to do or are expected to do:

People doubt that the President can really deliver the goods.

de,liver `up phrasal verb transitive FORMAL

to give something to someone officially and formally:

All the firm's accounting records have now been delivered up to the court.