[ C/U ] the act of taking goods, letters, or packages to people's houses or places of work:

[ U ] the manner in which someone speaks, esp. in public:

[ C ] the act or process of birth:

[ C or U ] the act of taking goods, letters, parcels, etc. to a place:

[ C ] an amount of goods received:

[ U ] the act of providing a service or supplying something to a customer:

[ U ] LAW a situation in which a buyer is given control of something they have bought:

[ U ] FINANCE used in the trading of futures to talk about the date when the shares or commodities (= goods) will be available to the buyer: