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deliverer

deliverer

1 2.7
A person who brings packages to homes or businesses
  • noun
  • /dɪˈlɪvərər/
translation icon : repartidor
  • Second, it is true that mail deliverers may have been offended by the things they have had to carry to their destinations.
  • pizza deliverers
  • mail deliverers
  • newspaper deliverers

Examples

  • Send us a deliverer.

  • Send us a deliverer.

  • First, they claimed that because the ice deliverer stopped coming to their district, they would have to buy a kerosene refrigerator.

    Academic text (1992)
  • As a career path for a singing telegram deliverer-turned-model, it makes a certain amount of sense.

    Blog text (7)
  • Teams, because of their ability to provide specialized solutions to problems, have often proved to be more efficient deliverers of information.

    Blog text (21)
  • She was a cleaner, a home care assistant, a newspaper deliverer, and even started her own home cleaning business.

    Blog text (19)
  • The woman is a receptionist, pill dispenser, assistant manager, and postal deliverer all in one.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Stephenson's Snow Crash portrays an anarchic world in which pizza deliverers who are late are killed by their mafia boss.

    Academic text (1997)
  • As in other jurisdictions, the decentralist approach to postsecondary education in British Columbia is based on a market-driven ideology that promotes deregulation, increased institutional autonomy, greater accountability for outcomes, and an increase in competition from private education deliverers.

    Academic text (2003)
  • The deliverer rang the doorbell and handed the package to the excited customer.

Synonyms

messenger
vsdeliverer
258 2.4

A person who delivers letters or small packages to other people

focuses more broadly on transporting goods or packages to addresses
carrier
vsdeliverer
238 2.9

A person or company that delivers letters and packages

is the specific person doing door deliveries rather than a broad transporter
mailman
vsdeliverer
  • US
96 1.0

A person who delivers letters and packages to people's homes and businesses

is the neutral term for anyone doing that delivery role
courier
vsdeliverer
94 3.8

A person who carries and delivers messages or packages

is the wider term for taking general goods or packages to addresses
runner
vsdeliverer
60 2.1

A person who delivers messages and small packages between offices

applies to deliveries to homes and businesses rather than internal runs
delivery boy
vsdeliverer
  • Informal
26 2.2

A young man who delivers food and packages to homes by bicycle or motorbike

refers to the same delivery job without implying age
hauler
vsdeliverer
  • US
10 4.1

A person or company that moves goods by truck on roads

is the individual job of bringing packages or goods to addresses, not bulk transport
mail carrier
vsdeliverer
  • US
7 2.0

A person who delivers letters and packages to homes and businesses

covers delivering any goods or packages, not only postal items
deliveryman
vsdeliverer
5 1.4

A person who brings packages or food to people's homes

is the general name for anyone who performs that delivery task
letter carrier
vsdeliverer
  • US
4 2.3

A person who delivers mail and packages to homes and shops

is broader, including non-mail goods and package deliveries
mailwoman
vsdeliverer
  • US
1 2.0

A woman who delivers letters and packages to homes and businesses

is the neutral term for anyone doing that delivery role
postie
vsdeliverer
  • Australian
1 8.4

A person who delivers letters and parcels to homes and shops

is the standard word for anyone who brings goods or packages to addresses
deliverywoman
vsdeliverer
3.5

A woman who brings packages to people's homes or shops

is the general name for anyone who performs that delivery task
postwoman
vsdeliverer
  • UK
2.1

A woman who delivers letters and packages to homes and shops

is broader, applying to any person who brings goods to addresses
vanner
vsdeliverer
7.9

A person who sells or delivers things from a van

is the general role of taking goods to homes or businesses regardless of vehicle

Antonyms

213 2.7

A person who gets something someone sends, gives, or throws

How Fast

courier
94 3.8
deliverer
1 2.7
postie
  • Australian
1 8.4

Surface Forms

deliverer singular
deliverers plural

Morphology

deliverer = deliver (transparent) = deliver + er

Standard agentive formation: 'deliver' (to bring/hand over) + '-er' = someone who delivers goods.

Etymology

Deliverer comes from deliver, which also came to mean 'to bring and hand over' things. So a deliverer is someone whose job is to bring packages or food to people's homes.