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special delivery
noun
- (in the U.S. Postal Service) delivery of mail outside the regularly scheduled hours, by a special messenger, upon the payment of an extra fee.
special delivery
noun
- the delivery of a piece of mail outside the time of a scheduled delivery
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of special delivery1
Example Sentences
If they were stopped by police, they were to tell officers they were a special delivery crew transferring radioactive material from the Dounreay nuclear power plant, near Thurso, for disposal at another site.
Planet Earth is about to receive a special delivery — the biggest sample yet from an asteroid.
But the River Thames is perhaps the choice for the most special deliveries - including an optical atomic clock.
My father handed his friend some money in an envelope and off he went to drop off some other special deliveries to his customers.
In the next few days, Mr. Wiggins will receive a special delivery from New York City: the last of the goldfish from underneath the tuberculosis hospital.
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