{
  "id": "delivery.service",
  "term": "delivery",
  "sense": "service",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "delivery",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the act of ship an item to a place for a person",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "items.object",
      "shipping.transport",
      "location.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "the item is ship to the place where a person receives it",
    "novel_properties": [
      "spatial transfer",
      "timed receipt",
      "service completion"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Amazon delivers Prime orders to U.S. homes within two days using its fulfillment network.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Apollo 11 mission delivered lunar samples to Earth via the Command Module Columbia.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Royal Mail delivers letters and parcels to UK addresses using a nationwide sorting and transport system.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "action.deed",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "deliver",
    "delivered",
    "deliveries",
    "delivering",
    "delivers",
    "delivery"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-delivery.service"
}