deliveries

noun

plural of delivery
1
as in releases
a freeing from an obligation or responsibility the school bell signaled our delivery from the tortures of math class

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2
as in childbirths
the act or process of giving birth to children her second delivery took only three hours

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Recent Examples of deliveries In parts of Texas, customers can receive drone deliveries from national brands and local businesses. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026 Arada, co-founded by a son of Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, blamed wartime delays to building material deliveries for a 29% drop in earnings. — Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 10 Aug. 2026 Raytheon also expects its manufacturing investments to support faster deliveries. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026 Metz is also partnering with digital health company Ro, a telehealth company that offers online appointments and at-home treatment deliveries. — Sameen Chaudhry, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026 Zipline now manages virtually all of Rwanda's pharmaceutical supplies and deliveries. — Fatma Tanis, NPR, 4 Aug. 2026 Boeing has said certification of that aircraft should follow, though deliveries of both jets are not expected until next year. — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026 The broadcaster pointed to the absence of major Netflix deliveries and a television delivery schedule concentrated later in the year. — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 3 Aug. 2026 According to the report, IPO activity and new private jet deliveries are 70% correlated over the past decade, except for the 2020 and 2021 Covid years. — Doug Gollan, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deliveries
  1. releases
  2. childbirths
  3. discharges
Noun
  • Ariana Grande Reaches 10 Charting Projects Grande is up to a milestone 10 charting releases on several of the lists where Petal debuts this time around.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Kavukcuoglu had been taking on broader responsibilities from Hassabis over the past year, including directing model development and presenting major Gemini releases, a person close to the DeepMind team told CNBC last week.
    — Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of releases
Noun
  • Congo's has among the world's highest rates of both childbirths per woman and deaths around childbirth.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Many women may not be aware at all that private details of their childbirths were shared with law enforcement.
    — Shoshana Walter, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
Definition of childbirths
Noun
  • In addition, this information could allow sewage treatment plant managers to regularly monitor their discharges.
    — Joan Rose, The Conversation, 10 Aug. 2026
  • This release offers insights into labor-market tightness by showing the number of job openings and hires, along with a breakdown of why employees left their jobs (quits, layoffs and discharges, and other separations such as retirement).
    — Zev Fima,Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of discharges

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“Deliveries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deliveries. Accessed 16 Aug. 2026.

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