home delivery

home delivery (countable and uncountable, plural home deliveries)

1. A service of delivering goods to the consumer's home.
   • 1996, Marketing in Europe, numbers 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.