Meanings
adjectivepredelivery (not comparable)
- not comparableBefore a delivery.
nounpredelivery (plural predeliveries)
plural predeliveries
- A delivery made earlier than requested or anticipated.
We were authorizing him, since it was not in the invitation for bids, to make those predeliveries.
1955, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Textile Procurement in the Military Services: Hearings..., page 18221 more example
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 […]
1985, Compilation of Selected Energy-related Legislation, page 343
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