noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a delivery charge
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How much is the store’s delivery charge?
a delivery driver (= delivering goods to a place )
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He’s a delivery driver for a pizza takeaway restaurant.
delivery man
general delivery
pick-up/fork-lift/delivery etc truck (= large vehicles used for particular purposes )
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His car was taken away on the back of a breakdown truck.
recorded delivery
rural delivery
special delivery
the delivery date (= a date on which goods will be delivered )
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The delivery date should be around 23rd August.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
late
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They were awarded damages for this loss of ordinary business which arose naturally from the late delivery .
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Boeing blamed late aircraft deliveries , snarled assembly lines and shortages of parts and skilled labor for the loss.
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S claimed payment for the nodes, and B counterclaimed damages for late delivery .
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B was therefore entitled to no damages for late delivery , and S was not entitled to contract payment.
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Mr. Austin Mitchell With the Government, it is more a question of the late delivery of policies.
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On the day, it's who handles any emergencies that crop up like blown fuses and late deliveries .
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There are stiff penalty clauses for late delivery .
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Of course, if delivery is late the buyer may accept late delivery thereby waiving his right to treat the contract as repudiated.
special
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A brown paper parcel arrived by special delivery .
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Think instead of five hundred pounds - in cash - sent to you by special delivery every week.
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Perhaps the birds are no more sinister than storks with a special delivery .
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And that followed his special delivery at White Hart Lane last month, when he netted twice in a 2-0 Coventry win.
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And, special delivery: The postman's bride ... two and a half years late.
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Many shops and stores have a special delivery area, usually at the rear of the store.
■ NOUN
boy
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Perhaps he had just been a delivery boy .
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One container held around thirty dollars in change and small bills, handy for tipping delivery boys , I suppose.
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Policeman, judge, delivery boy , priest, referee, commissionaire.
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The restaurant delivery boy rode skillfully up on his bike.
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And he'd send messages back through his delivery boy !
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He opened a flower shop but spends most of his time working as a delivery boy .
care
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Health care delivery and earlier recognition of emerging infectious diseases are enhanced when susceptible populations are targeted for surveillance.
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There is no system of health care delivery that has not been adversely affected by this fragmentation of people and their services.
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Primary nursing, combined with a mentor system, would allow patient care delivery together with opportunities for uninterrupted teaching.
date
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The delivery date for the futures contract is 30 June.
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Similar relationships hold for cycles of futures contracts with different delivery dates , as shown in Fig. 8.2.
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Poor delivery dates and servicing facilities are further factors to which empirical studies have attached major, even primary importance.
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Corridor's platform will allow retailers to inform their customers of precise delivery dates through online links to manufacturers and distributors.
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Where a delivery date had not been provided a shocking 59 per cent of goods were never delivered.
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Before the delivery date , the buyer made a sub-contract to sell similar goods at 65s. per ton.
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Confirm delivery date and make sure you send written confirmation of all the details.
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And what about that delivery date ?
february
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Unleaded gasoline for February delivery fell 1. 83 cents to 58. 65 cents a gallon.
home
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Customers can also order products online through links to Sainsbury's home delivery service.
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The price for home delivery will remain at $ 175 per year.
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We had 100 people in the retail home delivery , but that was going by the boards by then.
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Add $ 5 extra for home delivery .
man
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I did not want to appear like a delivery man .
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The blacks retaliated by killing white delivery men and greeting white raiders with gunfire.
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A quiet neighbourhood; no-one about but the occasional delivery man .
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Icebox makers and ice delivery men thought they could slide by until companies like Frigidaire started selling a lot of refrigerators.
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Ask the delivery man about how to operate it. 3.
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But yesterday the newspaper delivery man walked free from Wimbledon Court, South London, after being fined £200 for indecent exposure.
march
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Treasury bonds for March delivery dropped 7 / 32 to 120 1 / 8.
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Bond futures for March delivery rose 0. 11 from their Friday Tokyo close to 119. 71.
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Bond futures for March delivery will probably trade between 119. 50 yen and 119. 90 yen today, Ishibashi said.
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Bond futures for March delivery rose 0. 17 from yesterday to 119. 87.
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Bond futures for March delivery rose 0. 08 yen to 120. 06.
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Bond futures for March delivery fell 0. 14 yen to 119. 46.
note
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In spite of this, the Court of Appeal held that the parties intended risk to pass when the buyers accepted the delivery note .
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When goods are delivered to the retailer they are first checked against the delivery note and entered in the stock records.
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Alternatively, the seller may simply deliver goods together with a delivery note .
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An account number or clear reference such as an order or delivery note number for identifying the invoice or statement. 5.
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Accordingly the library sent 47 transparencies with a delivery note clearly requiring that they be returned by March 19.
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The delivery note included nine conditions, printed in four columns, which the agency never read.
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Under Leonore's eagle eye he had examined the suddenly produced delivery note and made only a cursory inspection of the truck.
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Inside was a small, maroon, leather-bound notebook, but no letter or delivery note .
room
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I was shaved, given an enema, sent to shower and then directed to a bed in the delivery room .
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Further money has been used to buy hand mirrors for each delivery room .
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In Britain newborn babies are identified with name tags before they leave the delivery room .
schedule
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The skilful salesperson will ask for a concession in return - perhaps a less onerous delivery schedule .
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The superintendent in the steel company needed power to get a more efficient delivery schedule of slabs.
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Typically, managers focus on operating their area of assigned responsibility for efficiency, cost containment, and compliance with delivery schedules .
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But the 5K86 is months behind its original delivery schedule and its performance is unremarkable, analysts say.
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Motorola denies that any such problems will occur and says it will meet the delivery schedule .
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They learn delivery schedules , work routines and product lines.
service
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Six main objectives are indicated by the government for service delivery .
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When governments separate policy management from service delivery , they often find that they have no real policy management capacity.
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There is a danger too that campaigning or lobbying activities fit uneasily with service delivery .
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Their commerce departments, welfare departments, housing authorities-all are driven by service delivery .
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The service delivery is fundamental and must include everyone.
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When the Progressives embraced service delivery by administrative bureaucracies, they embraced monopoly.
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Labour needs to match its commitment to spending with innovative ideas about service delivery , financing and management.
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For example: Communities have more commitment to their members than service delivery systems have to their clients.
system
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Fifth I want to achieve a better delivery system - more cooperation with the tax system and better management.
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Assembled products can be quickly shipped to wherever they are needed with just-in-time air freight delivery systems .
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However, the growing flexibility in our delivery systems should mean that no-one is disadvantaged.
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Because of its preventive aspects, nutrition education should be included at all levels of the health delivery system .
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I own at least six caffeine delivery systems from a Melita to an espresso machine.
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But by 1990 the world was no longer bipolar, except in strategic nuclear weapons and delivery systems .
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Pedagogically, there must be a similar change towards an outreach and needs-oriented educational delivery system .
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S., prompting, among other things, hospital consolidation and the formation of large regional health-care-delivery systems .
time
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Both interventions involved minimal, project oriented teacher training and were circumscribed, involving three to five hours' delivery time overall.
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Fifth, Wireboard expects the new plant to reduce delivery times by a factor of three while simultaneously achieving zero defects.
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The company will, however, package to customers' specific requirements as regulations permit, in order to reduce delivery time .
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Automakers also are demanding high-quality and innovative products and shorter design and delivery times , industry experts said.
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Figure 9, below, shows the pattern of delivery times calculated.
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Now one has a healthier order book while the other finds its delivery times and its storage needs slashed.
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The Royal Mail Service booklet contains a guide to delivery times worldwide.
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We can not guarantee a particular delivery time .
times
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Figure 9, below, shows the pattern of delivery times calculated.
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Fifth, Wireboard expects the new plant to reduce delivery times by a factor of three while simultaneously achieving zero defects.
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Now one has a healthier order book while the other finds its delivery times and its storage needs slashed.
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Automakers also are demanding high-quality and innovative products and shorter design and delivery times , industry experts said.
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The Royal Mail Service booklet contains a guide to delivery times worldwide.
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The delivery times for different categories of material are, therefore, discussed separately in the sections which follow.
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Sellers may negotiate price, credit terms, delivery times , trade-in values and other aspects of the commercial transaction.
truck
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What better way to transport escapees south than in the delivery trucks ?
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A few weeks back, one of her delivery trucks got broadsided outside the restaurant.
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They were slow, unglamorous, seagoing delivery trucks , but they were also ideal as electronic snoopers.
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They settled in San Diego, where Swensson drove a bread delivery truck .
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Many of you ate behind the wheel of your car or delivery truck .
van
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Motor vehicles: The business owns a fleet of cars and delivery vans all of which were bought from new.
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Tommy purchases a new delivery van for $ 10, 000.
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They have even given up their company cars and now tout for business in the firm's delivery van .
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They initially bought 400 beds at £100 each and a delivery van for £6,000.
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A smaller delivery van from a wholesaler was just moving into her unloading yard.
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A large delivery van was almost blocking the narrow street, its high sides nearly shutting off the daylight from her windows.
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He disappears into the constant traffic of delivery vans , porters and shoppers.
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Soho at this hour was an area of delivery vans , and of pavements that were wet with hosing-down.
■ VERB
allow
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Name and address on the back, please. Allow 28 days for delivery .
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The first modification requires that a reorder point be established that allows for delivery lead times.
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As this is a personalised service, please allow six weeks for delivery .
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This plant, which commenced production in June, allows next day delivery to both Melbourne and Sydney.
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Please allow 28 days for delivery .
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Primary nursing, combined with a mentor system, would allow patient care delivery together with opportunities for uninterrupted teaching.
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Please make cheques payable to Lifestyle Promotions and allow 14 days for delivery .
bond
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In London on Friday, bond futures for March delivery rose 0. 09 from their Tokyo close to 119. 69.
include
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Shoestring operations include hand and bicycle delivery of membership communications produced on a generous Committee member's word processor.
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Price includes delivery in the town.
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Such local network systems would offer higher efficiency and greater local control of electricity, including generation, delivery and use.
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This includes Saturday delivery , at no extra cost.
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The price will include delivery and fitting where appropriate.
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Those which trade generally tend to offer technical expertise and support service that includes training facilities and delivery .
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The kids' bikes are a fantastic £89.95 - and both prices include delivery .
make
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And good voice training will make your natural delivery sound ten times better than when you first started training.
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Many truckers gave up on making deliveries and thousands were without power.
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The lead time as shown is the time taken between the order being made and the delivery taking place.
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Traffic had stalled to a stop because an oil truck was making a delivery , so the road was one lane wide.
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The persons in the bakery assumed that they were the milkmen making the morning delivery and paid no attention.
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Component suppliers decided to stop making deliveries unless they were paid.
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David Richendifer of Denver said he had noticed added security in hotels and office buildings where his company makes deliveries .
take
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He sold them to B who did not take delivery .
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The buyer can exercise this right by refusing to take delivery or informing the seller that he rejects the goods.
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First, the cheque which Y had given X when Y took delivery of the car from X, was dishonoured.
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School joy: Eastbourne School, Darlington, will take delivery of a brand new £14,000 minibus on Wednesday.
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The Army is taking delivery of LAW-80, a short range anti-tank weapon costing £400m.
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Proof of posting will not be taken as proof of delivery .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cash on delivery
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Cash with order or cash on delivery is always better than cash some time in the future.
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If you have reservations only accept orders on the basis of cash on delivery.
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Most people will offer something even if it is only a few percent for cash on delivery.
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Payment is to be made on a cash on delivery basis.
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Terms of cash on delivery or advance payment should be instituted for future sales to consistently delinquent accounts.
office/paper/delivery etc boy
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And he'd send messages back through his delivery boy !
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Even little office boys dressed as though they were running the country.
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He opened a flower shop but spends most of his time working as a delivery boy .
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One container held around thirty dollars in change and small bills, handy for tipping delivery boys , I suppose.
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Perhaps he had just been a delivery boy .
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Policeman, judge, delivery boy , priest, referee, commissionaire.
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The restaurant delivery boy rode skillfully up on his bike.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A hospital is usually the best place for a safe delivery .
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Ask your neighbor to take any deliveries while you are on vacation.
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mail deliveries
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Meg was recovering from a particularly complicated delivery .
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Pizza Mondo offers free delivery .
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She had a quick, easy delivery .
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The actor gives his usual gruff delivery , meant to convince us he's honest.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At first sight, indeed, every civilization looks rather like a railway goods yard, constantly receiving and dispatching miscellaneous deliveries.
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Bob had driven into the delivery yard after satisfying the man on the gate that he was on official business.
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Efficiency is also sought in accurate invoicing and supply, regular deliveries and good reporting on outstanding orders.
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I mean, I was seventeen or eighteen and helping out in deliveries.
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J., says cord prices are flat with last year at about $ 115 with delivery .
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Or pay extra for special handling or private delivery services.
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That is what we seek to do, rather than adopting a defeatist attitude to the delivery of health care.