predelivery

adj

1. (not-comparable)Before a delivery.

noun

1. A delivery made earlier than requested or anticipated.

   “We were authorizing him, since it was not in the invitation for bids, to make those predeliveries.”

   “It proposed that the current Canadian “gas bubble” be sold to export customers, either as “predeliveries” on contract volumes that would otherwise be delivered in the 1984-90 periods, or […]”