predelivery
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]predelivery (not comparable)
- Before a delivery.
Noun
[edit]predelivery (plural predeliveries)
- A delivery made earlier than requested or anticipated.
- 1955, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Textile Procurement in the Military Services: Hearings..., page 1822:
- We were authorizing him, since it was not in the invitation for bids, to make those predeliveries.
- 1985, Compilation of Selected Energy-related Legislation, page 343:
- It proposed that the current Canadian “gas bubble” be sold to export customers, either as “predeliveries” on contract volumes that would otherwise be delivered in the 1984-90 periods, or […]