Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of delivering back; also, a second deliverance or liberation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Act of delivering back.
  • noun A second or new delivery or liberation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act or process of redelivering; a second or subsequent delivery.

Etymologies

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re- +‎ delivery

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Examples

  • Boeing, Air China Cargo and TAECO (Taikoo Aircraft Engineering Co.) are touting the 'redelivery' of the carrier's first 747-400 Boeing Converted Freighter, the first of three 747-400BCFs ordered by the airline.

    Aero-News Network 2009

  • On Saturday, I was out for breakfast, and by the time I returned home and discovered there was no paper, I had no option to ask for a refund or redelivery.

    Personal Tech Live with Rob Pegoraro Rob Pegoraro 2010

  • Fortunately, though, I could schedule a redelivery rather than go get it myself.

    AUSTRALIAN POST SERVICE DAMN DIU LAN CHAO HAI!!! Jerine 2009

  • And if you miss a package, scheduling redelivery is also a snap.

    Paige Hobey: Holiday Survival Tips Working Mom Style 2008

  • I'm waiting in for a Royal Mail redelivery of it, but it's looking increasingly like they've messed that up, and it'd be helpful to know how big this thing is if I have to trek out to the sorting office. var doubleclick_ad_params = 'a=1;r=0;w=1;wg=1;wa=37;wc=UK;ra=37;rg=1;jid=6531894;c=jo;pt=jo';

    grahamsleight: Question grahamsleight 2008

  • I'm waiting in for a Royal Mail redelivery of it, but it's looking increasingly like they've messed that up, and it'd be helpful to know how big this thing is if I have to trek out to the sorting office.

    grahamsleight's Journal 2008

  • It looks like somebody's implemented a stream protocol that lets you create substreams at will, sharing congestion control information with the parent stream but having their own redelivery queues, so missing messages will only stall the one ordered stream they pertain to.

    Snell-Pym » Structured Streams 2007

  • We need at least 20 million of these, for the redelivery of Mexicans to Mexico.

    the cat carrier « raincoaster 2007

  • To the FidoNet program regions looked like Nets, but instead of sending all the mail for a region to one single Fido host for later redelivery, each would be delivered directly, one by one, like in the original, pre-net design.

    The History of Fidonet: An Interview with Tom Jennings, by Marge Robbins (Transcription) 1993

  • Virginia, the Council should immediately demand of Lord Effingham his redelivery into this Province.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

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