make deliveries
idiom
: to take goods to customers
The supermarket makes deliveries for free within 30 miles of the store.
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In the past, the non-profit has relied on volunteers to make deliveries when farm share participants aren’t able to pick up.
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Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023
Drivers who make deliveries out of the company’s Bedford Park, Cicero and Forest Park locations allege scammers have used bots to hoard orders.
—Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2023
Employees are strongly encouraged to make deliveries monthly.
—Dee-Ann Durbin, Fortune, 28 June 2023
The drivers are independent contractors who make deliveries for Walmart using the company’s delivery platform, called Spark.
—Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2023
But just being online on the app and available to make deliveries won’t cut it.
—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 29 June 2023
In recent weeks, at least two tankers that are more than 20 years old spent almost a month waiting to make deliveries of crude into the world’s largest importer, including one from Russia, as the stricter checks in Shandong province hamper deliveries.
—Bloomberg News, Bloomberg.com, 19 May 2023
Bimal Jhale, 43, tried to set out on his scooter to make deliveries for Grubhub on Wednesday afternoon but was already dizzy after working as cook in a diner that morning.
—Alexandra Olson and Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023
North Atlantic Treaty Organization members, including the U.K. and the Baltic states, have also sent plane loads of weapons, with Poland and the Czech Republic slated to make deliveries soon.
—Brett Forrest, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2022
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Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2023
Drivers who make deliveries out of the company’s Bedford Park, Cicero and Forest Park locations allege scammers have used bots to hoard orders.
—Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2023
Employees are strongly encouraged to make deliveries monthly.
—Dee-Ann Durbin, Fortune, 28 June 2023
The drivers are independent contractors who make deliveries for Walmart using the company’s delivery platform, called Spark.
—Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2023
But just being online on the app and available to make deliveries won’t cut it.
—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 29 June 2023
In recent weeks, at least two tankers that are more than 20 years old spent almost a month waiting to make deliveries of crude into the world’s largest importer, including one from Russia, as the stricter checks in Shandong province hamper deliveries.
—Bloomberg News, Bloomberg.com, 19 May 2023
Bimal Jhale, 43, tried to set out on his scooter to make deliveries for Grubhub on Wednesday afternoon but was already dizzy after working as cook in a diner that morning.
—Alexandra Olson and Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023
North Atlantic Treaty Organization members, including the U.K. and the Baltic states, have also sent plane loads of weapons, with Poland and the Czech Republic slated to make deliveries soon.
—Brett Forrest, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2022
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