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Meaning of "rural delivery" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF RURAL DELIVERY

rural delivery play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RURAL DELIVERY

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Rural delivery is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES RURAL DELIVERY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Rural delivery service

Rural delivery service refers to services for the delivery of mail to rural areas. Examples include Rural Free Delivery in the United States and the Rural Mail Box addressing system in Australia. Such services may be based on post roads, or may make use of alternate forms of transport, such as mail delivery by animal, including dogs and pigeons. Such services are in contrast to those suitable only to urban areas, such as the Prague pneumatic post and the London Pneumatic Despatch Company.

Definition of rural delivery in the English dictionary

The definition of rural delivery in the dictionary is a mail service in a country area, often run by contractors for the Post Office.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RURAL DELIVERY

rural
rural dean
rural development
rural district
rural district council
rural planning
rural science
rural studies
ruralisation
ruralise
ruralism
ruralist
ruralite
rurality
ruralization
ruralize
rurally
ruralness
rurban
ruridecanal

WORDS THAT END LIKE RURAL DELIVERY

breech delivery
cash on delivery
collect on delivery
delivery
discovery
express delivery
forward delivery
general delivery
home delivery
jail delivery
livery
nondelivery
pizza delivery
predelivery
quivery
recorded delivery
redelivery
rivery
shivery
special delivery
special-delivery

Synonyms and antonyms of rural delivery in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «rural delivery» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RURAL DELIVERY

Find out the translation of rural delivery to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of rural delivery from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rural delivery» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

农村投递
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

entrega rural
570 millions of speakers

English

rural delivery
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ग्रामीण वितरण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تسليم الريف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сельское доставка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

entrega rural
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গ্রামীণ ডেলিভারি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

livraison en milieu rural
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penghantaran luar bandar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Landzusteller
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

農村配信
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

농촌 전달
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pedesaan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giao hàng nông thôn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கிராமப்புற விநியோகம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ग्रामीण वितरण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kırsal doğum
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

consegna rurale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Dostawa wiejskich
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сільське доставка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

livrare rural
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αγροτική παράδοση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

landelike lewering
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lantlig leverans
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

landpostbud
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rural delivery

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RURAL DELIVERY»

The term «rural delivery» is normally little used and occupies the 119.238 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RURAL DELIVERY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «rural delivery» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «rural delivery» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rural delivery

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RURAL DELIVERY»

Discover the use of rural delivery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rural delivery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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OECD Rural Policy Reviews Strategies to Improve Rural ...
85% of Hampshire's land area and 23% of the population are defined as rural. The rural delivery strategy aims to address issues of rural deprivation, isolation, poor accessibility, and higher costs in service delivery. The county council's elected ...
OECD, 2010
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Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States
Postal Service employees who transfer either to or from the Rural Delivery Service may not count service in. the positions from which transfen-ed. toward the "one year's satisfactory service in each grade" required DECISIONS OF THE ...
United States. General Accounting Office, 1947
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The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia
Congress, however, responded to public opinion and launched a rural delivery system, and trial delivery began in rural West Virginia on October 1, 1896. Two weeks later, another trial began in Ohio. Mail carriers followed country roads, ...
Andrew R. L. Cayton, Richard Sisson, Chris Zacher, 2006
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OECD Rural Policy Reviews OECD Rural Policy Reviews: ...
Developing a rural delivery strategy for Hampshire Hampshire is situated mid way along the south coast of England and is one of the largest non- metropolitan or “shire” counties in England. It has a population of over 1 240 000 (2001 census) ...
OECD, 2011
5
Emerging Competition in Postal and Delivery Services
Further, they find that the majority of rural routes studied are profitable and that the Postal Service's concern about financial losses resulting from unduly expensive rural delivery are either overstated or unfounded. 2. Description of " City" and ...
Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer, 1999
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ...
Regional Rural Delivery Frameworks and Rural Delivery Pathfinders In each region, the Government Office has been leading on the implementation and further development of a rural delivery framework which are designed to address the key ...
Great Britain: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2007
7
U.S. Postal Service USPS needs to clearly communicate how ...
USPS estimated that the additional annual cost in fiscal year 2003 for each city door delivery ($295) was more than twice as expensive as rural delivery ($143) and over three times as expensive as highway contract deliveries ($90). The USPS ...
United States, Senate, United States Postal Service, Government Accountability Office, Congress, Committee on Governmental Affairs
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The Government's Rural Strategy and the Draft Natural ...
First, local authorities are and will be key contributors to the regional rural delivery frameworks, through which each region will agree what their priorities should be and how the various public sector bodies can work together to deliver them.
Great Britain: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2005
9
The Potential of England's Rural Economy: Eleventh Report of ...
Memorandum submitted by the Lancashire Rural Delivery Pathfinder EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ES.l This is a submission to the EFRA Parliamentary Select Committee inquiry into the potential of England's rural economy from the Lancashire ...
Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, 2008
10
The Potential of England's Rural Economy: Report, Together ...
The Rural Delivery Pathfinder project is an example of the kind of initiative that could help Defra to deliver some of the targeted, practical solutions that would make a real difference to rural communities. The project was set up jointly by Defra ...
House of Commons, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RURAL DELIVERY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rural delivery is used in the context of the following news items.
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Flipkart plans drones for rural delivery, wants to persuade govt
India's leading e-tailer Flipkart is thinking beyond the horizon. It wants to use drones to deliver goods to rural areas. The catch is that civilian drones are not ... «Hindustan Times, May 15»
2
Rural postie calls it a day
Fifteen years, four vans, 30 sets of tyres and 750,000 kilometres after his first mail run, Picton rural delivery driver Adam Coleman has filled the letterbox for the ... «Marlborough Express, May 15»
3
Scottish minister acts on rural delivery charges
Enterprise minister Fergus Ewing has asked major retailers to ensure customers in rural areas are not penalised on delivery charges. Businesses have signed ... «BBC News, Mar 14»
4
Canada Post staffing issues delay rural mail...
The Guelph union president of Local 546 said over the past year it has become the norm for some rural delivery routes in the Guelph area to be pushed back a ... «Guelph Mercury, Dec 13»
5
Waikato Times gets NZ Post rural delivery
NEW BUSINESS: Stuart Kane Head of Provincial Contract Management for NZ Post, which will now be handling the rural delivery of the Waikato Times. «Stuff.co.nz, Dec 13»
6
Bruce Wills: Rural posties deliver much more than just the mail
"Our rural delivery contractors provide a lifeline, delivering supplies, repairs and ... As the rural blogger Ele Ludemann of Homepaddock correctly observed, ... «New Zealand Herald, Oct 13»
7
A Short History of Home Mail Delivery
Most forms of Saturday mail delivery will end in August, the U.S. Postal Service ... Rural delivery was a hit – most of the articles about today's announcement cite ... «Pacific Standard, Feb 13»
8
NZ Post increases parcel rates, adds rural delivery charge
The postage rates will increase from five to 11 percent, while parcels destined for rural delivery addresses will incur an addition charge of $2.80, effective Mar. 1. «Scoop.co.nz, Jan 12»
9
Surge in anger over rural delivery charges
Hundreds more people have contacted Citizens Advice Scotland over the past few hours to complain about unfair rural delivery charges. Earlier the charity ... «BBC News, Dec 11»
10
Rural Delivery
Executive producer, Kirsty Cooper says Rural Delivery is an exciting ... the series which features rural high achievers, ground breaking research, rural news, ... «TVNZ, Jun 05»

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« EDUCALINGO. Rural delivery [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/rural-delivery>. Apr 2024 ».
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