(pl. -ies)
1
- a special uniform worn by a servant, an official, or a member of a City Company（仆人、官员或伦敦商业公会会员等穿的）制服。
1.1
- a special design and colour scheme used on the vehicles, aircraft, or products of a particular company公司徽标（某一公司的车辆、飞机或产品上代表该公司的标志）。
2
- N. Amer.short for LIVERY STABLE.〈北美〉LIVERY STABLE的简称。
3
- (in the UK) the members of a City livery company collectively（英国）同业公会会员［总称］。
4
- historical a provision of food or clothing for servants〈史〉为仆人提供的衣食。
5
- （全称livery of seisin）Brit. historical the ceremonial procedure at common law of conveying freehold land to a grantee〈英, 史〉土地所有权转让仪式。
短语
at livery
- (of a horse) kept for the owner and fed and cared for at a fixed charge（马的）代养。
派生词
liveried
adjective （限义项1）词源
Middle English: from Old French livree 'delivered', feminine past participle of livrer, from Latin liberare 'liberate' （in medieval Latin 'hand over'）. The original sense was 'the dispensing of food, provisions, or clothing to servants'; hence sense 4, also 'allowance of provender for horses', surviving in the phrase at livery and in LIVERY STABLE. Sense 1 arose because medieval nobles provided matching clothes to distinguish their servants from others'.