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delivery
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Delivery
The tender and receipt of an actual commodity or financial instrument in settlement of a futures contract.
Delivery
The transfer of a security or an underlying asset to a buyer. The term is often used in options, forward, and futures contracts, in which payment and delivery are separated by a relatively long period of time. Most of the time, however, delivery does not occur, as most traders offset their positions with opposite contracts.
delivery
1. The transfer of a security to an investor's broker in order to satisfy an executed sell order. Delivery is required by the settlement date.
2. The transfer of a specified commodity in order to meet the requirements of a commodity contract that has been sold.
delivery

The transfer of possession from one person to another.Deeds and leases require delivery before they are effective. Delivery does not depend on manual transfer, but does depend on the intent of the parties. Deeds are delivered when placed within the possession or control of the grantee in such a manner that the grantor cannot regain possession or control.
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We tested 78 amniotic fluid samples from patients who delivered prematurely (defined as spontaneous delivery before 37 weeks of gestation) at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland, from 2003 to 2006.
Evidence of maternal-fetal transmission of Parachlamydia acanthamoebae by Baud, David; Goy, Genevieve; Gerber, Stefan; Vial, Yvan; Hohlfeld, Patrick; Greub, Gilbert / Emerging Infectious Diseases
On the other hand, they noted that the induced group had a slightly greater blood loss, slightly lower APGAR scores, a 17% increase in epidural use and a 5% higher cesarean section rate than the spontaneous delivery group.
Labor induction practices in a rural midwestern hospital by Zust, Barbara L.; Briggs, Nicole B. / Online Journal of Rural Nursing & Health Care
However, among spontaneous delivery mothers that rose to 30.
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