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Definition: Special Delivery |
Special DeliveryNoun1. Mail that is delivered by a special carrier (for an additional charge). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Screenplays | Special delivery -- a bomb (Revenge of the Pink Panther; writing credit: Ron Clark; Blake Edwards) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fe-mail Special Delivery (1965) Extra Special Delivery (1963) Special Delivery (1927) A Special Delivery (1916) Special Delivery (2003) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Every baby's a special delivery. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Travel | Taiwan | Surface mail is normally delivered to any part of the island within one or two days, and a special delivery service is available that features delivery six to eight hours after posting, depending on destination. (references) |
Philippines | The Philippine Postal Corporation (Philpost) provides for surface, airmail, and Express Mail Service (EMS), as well as domestic regular, priority, and express mail, postal money order service, and registered and special delivery mail. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
special delivery | 100 |
precious moment timmys special delivery | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "special delivery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pikajakelu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εξπρέσ (express). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | expressz küldemény (express delivery), expressz kézbesítés (express delivery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | ekspres (fast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | espresso (espresso, explicit, express, express letter, expressed, fast, fast letter, made to order, pronounce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 速" (express), 別配" . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そくたつ (express), べつはいたつ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecialspay eliveryday срочная доставка (express delivery). (various references) expressutdelning. (various references) özel ulak (courier, express). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-i-i-l-l-p-r-s-v-y" | |
-4 letters: veridically. | |
-5 letters: callipered, clepsydrae, decisively, deliveries, derisively, escadrille, espadrille, espaliered, especially, everyplace, larvicides, relievedly, viscerally. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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