英和和英

語源

pre- +‎ delivery

形容詞

predelivery (not comparable)

1. Before a delivery.

名詞

predelivery (複数形 predeliveries)

1. A delivery made earlier than requested or anticipated.
   • 1955, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Textile Procurement in the Military Services: Hearings... (page 1822)

     We were authorizing him, since it was not in the invitation for bids, to make those predeliveries.

   • 1985, Compilation of Selected Energy-related Legislation (page 343)

     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 […]