noun
someone employed to make deliveries
• Syn: ↑delivery boy, ↑deliverer
• Hypernyms: ↑employee
• Hyponyms:
↑carrier, ↑newsboy, ↑coalman, ↑grocery boy, ↑iceman, ↑mailman, ↑postman, ↑mail carrier, ↑letter carrier, ↑milkman, ↑paperboy
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\\-ˌman, -ˌmaa(ə)n, -_mən\ noun (plural deliverymen) : a person who delivers wholesale or retail goods to customers usually over a regular local route
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/di liv"euh ree man', -meuhn/, n., pl. deliverymen /-men', -meuhn/.
a person employed to make deliveries of merchandise to purchasers, usually by means of a truck.
[1915-20; DELIVERY + MAN1]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.