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Definition of Deliver the goods
1. Verb. Attain success or reach a desired goal. "The business is going to deliver the goods "; "She struggled to overcome her handicap and won"
Specialized synonyms: Hit, Bring Off, Carry Off, Manage, Negociate, Pull Off, Clear, Pass, Hit The Jackpot, Luck Out, Nail, Nail Down, Peg, Make It, Pass, Run, Act, Work, Pan Out, Accomplish, Achieve, Attain, Reach, Arrive, Get In, Go Far, Make It
Entails: Assay, Attempt, Essay, Seek, Try
Antonyms: Fail
Derivative terms: Succeeder, Winner
Definition of Deliver the goods
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To keep one's promises. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deliver The Goods
Literary usage of Deliver the goods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"... "or by subse- [*534 quent agreement, for either of the purposes just mentioned.
The master is bound to deliver the goods in a reasonable time. ..."
2. A Selection of Leading Cases on Various Branches of the Law: With Notes by John William Smith (1841)
"All he hail to do was to deliver the goods upon one of the bills of ... oa behalf
of Bromley, not to deliver the goods, and accordingly refused, ..."
3. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1895)
"cannot refuse to re-deliver the goods even though they are claimed A clause in
the bill of lading, that goods not removed by the consignee on arrival at the ..."
4. The Law of Pleading and Evidence in Civil Actions: Arranged Alphabetically by John Simcoe Saunders (1851)
"But, if the pit. was bound, as in general he is, to deliver the goods, ... The pit.
must have the ability as well as the will to deliver the goods (Lawrence ..."
5. A Treatise on the Effect of the Contract of Sale on the Legal Rights of by Colin Blackburn Blackburn (1896)
"If the carrier refuses to deliver the goods to the agent, it is in general ...
The bill of lading is sometimes *an undertaking to deliver the goods to the ..."
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