Redeliver

Origin

From - + deliver.

Full definition of redeliver

Verb

1. To give back; to return (something).
• 1615, Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia, Richmond 1957, pp. 5-6:his father had then eight of our English men, many swords, peeces, and other tooles, which he had at seuerall times by trecherons murdering our men, taken from them, which though of no use to him, he would not redeliuer ....
2. To deliver (a letter, parcel, etc.) again.
3. To deliver or liberate again.
4. (obsolete) To report; to deliver the answer of.
• ShakespeareShall I redeliver you e'en so?

Derived terms

• redelivery

Anagrams

• deliverer