deliverable

English

Etymology

From deliver +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈlɪvɹəbəɫ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Adjective

deliverable (comparative more deliverable, superlative most deliverable)

1. Able to be delivered.

   The packages were not deliverable because the roads had flooded out.

   • 2002 August 27, “Eyes on Iraq: In Cheney’s Words: The Administration Case for Removing Saddam Hussein”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015:

     Deliverable weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a terror network or a murderous dictator or the two working together constitutes as grave a threat as can be imagined.

   • 2021 May 5, Philip Haigh, “I think we need better than this from the rail industry”, in RAIL, number 930, page 50:

     In any of our worlds, if we went out to consult on options that weren't deliverable, we would rightly be heavily criticised for wasting people's time.

Derived terms

• undeliverable

Translations

able to be delivered

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可以传送的

• Finnish: toimituskelpoinen, toimitettavissa oleva
• French: livrable (fr)
• German: lieferbar (de)
• Hungarian: (able to be shipped or mailed) kézbesíthető, (able to be transported) szállítható (hu), (able to be handed over) átadható (hu)

Noun

deliverable (plural deliverables)

1. (business, management) The tangible end product; that which will be delivered.

   Due to inclement weather, we will be unable to provide our deliverables.

   We packaged the deliverable, a program called FLOOD.EXE, in an installer file.

Translations

end product

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 交付物

• Finnish: tuote (fi), myyntituote
• French: livrable (fr) m
• German: Arbeitsergebnis n
• Hungarian: végeredmény (hu), végtermék (hu), késztermék (hu), (figuratively) kézzelfogható eredmény
• Italian: prodotto finale
• Japanese: 成果物 (ja) (seikabutsu), 納品物 (nōhinbutsu)
• Swedish: leverabel c