actual delivery
collocation in Englishmeaningsofactualanddelivery
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actual
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈæk.tʃu.əl/us/ˈæk.tʃu.əl/
existing ...
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delivery
noun
uk/dɪˈlɪv.ər.i/us/dɪˈlɪv.ɚ.i/
the act of taking goods, letters, parcels, etc. to people's houses or places ...
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(Definition ofactualanddeliveryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofactual delivery
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That would involve work preliminary to theactualdelivery.
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In addition,actualdeliverycontinues to be a problem.
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Another big drama will be theactualdelivery.
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It is a tax on theactualdeliveryservice.
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However, this may entail considerable loss of economies of scope (in the packaging of different benefits) and advantages from substitution (in theactualdeliveryof care).
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Water districts can have a long time lag between a farmer's request for and theactualdeliveryof water, preventing a farmer from precision irrigation timing.
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Supplies of cable in 1949 were adequate, but there were some delays inactualdelivery.
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Clearly the challenge will be to follow the rhetoric withactualdeliveryof objectives.
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This is not necessarily for theactualdelivery—many of them go into hospital for that.
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Theactualdeliveryof the child is something quite apart from the general question.
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When willactualdeliveryof these greater quantities of materials start?
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Theactualdeliverydate of steel is the thing that counts.
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However, transmission services do not include theactualdelivery.
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We need to get the best in innovation, in ideas, in management of design as well as inactualdelivery.
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Related to this, and of crucial importance, is how preachers might have used these manuscript model sermons, and other preaching aids, in preparing their own sermons faractualdelivery.
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This mandate has often been interpreted as government responsibility for theactualdeliveryof care, a position that led to an attempt to limit the private sector in the 1980s.
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We have learned that commitments to spend, particularly when private finance initiatives are involved, do not meanactualdeliveryof projects.
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She did not go into the details of theactualdelivery, which are just as sensitive and about which people are just as squeamish.
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In many instances, evidence of posting oractualdeliveryhas to be given before the courts can dispose of a case.
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It looks as if the administration of the scheme will take up a substantial part of the £4 million and will probably be more than theactualdelivery.
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We are looking not simply for a signature to important documents, but theactualdeliveryof positive remedies, preferably, in the first place, within this jurisdiction.
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