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signed, sealed and delivered signed, sealed, and deliveredOfficially approved or verified; successfully executed or completed. Once the contract is signed, sealed, and delivered, we'll send an engineer to the house to set up the new satellite dish. The deal between the two companies has been signed, sealed, and delivered.See also: and, deliversigned, sealed, and deliveredFig. formally and officially signed; [for a formal document to be] executed. Here is the deed to the property—signed, sealed, and delivered. I can't begin work on this project until I have the contract signed, sealed, and delivered.See also: and, deliversigned, sealed, and deliveredCompleted satisfactorily, as in The house is sold-signed, sealed, and delivered. This idiom refers to a legal deed, which to be valid had to be signed by the seller, sealed with a wax seal, and delivered to the new owner. It began to be used more loosely in the first half of the 1900s. See also: and, deliversigned, sealed, and delivered (or signed and sealed) formally and officially agreed and in effect.See also: and, deliverˌsigned, ˌsealed and deˈlivered, ˌsigned and ˈsealed definite, because all the legal documents have been signed: At the conference they hope to have a treaty signed, sealed and delivered by Tuesday.See also: and, deliver, sealsigned, sealed, and deliveredSatisfactorily completed. This nineteenth-century term originally described a legal document, specifically a deed, which in order to be valid had to be signed, sealed with a wax seal, and delivered to the new owner. Sir Walter Scott so used it in Rob Roy (1818): “How does Farmer Rutledge? . . . I hope you found him able to sign, seal and deliver.” In the twentieth century the expression began to be used more loosely.See also: and, deliver |