home delivery

home delivery

English

Noun

home delivery (countable and uncountable, plural home deliveries)

1. A service of delivering goods to the consumer's home.
   • 1996, Marketing in Europe (issues 404-409, page 107)

     While there is one restaurant for every 421 inhabitants in France, there is only one home delivery outlet for every 58,000 inhabitants. Home delivery is a complex business which requires a good command of transport, cooking and service techniques and which can only be applied to relatively simple, well-known dishes. This is why pizzas are particularly popular in this area […]

2. Homebirth.
   • 1996, Eva Abraham-Van der Mark, Successful Home Birth and Midwifery: The Dutch Model (page 1)

     The history of childbirth in the Netherlands and the unbroken importance of home delivery in Dutch society are unique.

Translations

service of delivering goods to the customer's home

French: livraison à domicile f Japanese: 宅配 (takuhai)

Korean: 택배 (taekbae), 배달 (ko) (baedal)