- send down
- transitive verb Date: 1848 British to suspend or expel from a university
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
send down
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send down — ► send down Brit. 1) expel (a student) from a university. 2) informal sentence to imprisonment. Main Entry: ↑send … English terms dictionary
send down — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms send down : present tense I/you/we/they send down he/she/it sends down present participle sending down past tense sent down past participle sent down British informal 1) to send someone to prison He s been… … English dictionary
send down — verb suspend temporarily from college or university, in England • Syn: ↑rusticate • Derivationally related forms: ↑rustication (for: ↑rusticate) • Hypernyms: ↑suspend, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
send down — v. (BE) (D; tr.) ( to expel ) to send down from (he was sent down from Oxford) * * * [ send daʊn] (BE) (D;tr.) ( to expel ) to send down from (he was sent down from Oxford) … Combinatory dictionary
send down — 1. to dismiss from university The opposite of up, in residence. Usually for misconduct or failure to achieve academic results: When I was an undergraduate you got sent down if you were caught riveting a dolly. (Sharpe, 1974) Send… … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
send down — 1) PHRASAL VERB: usu passive If a student is sent down from their university or college, they are made to leave because they have behaved very badly. [BRIT] [be V ed P] She wondered if he had been sent down for gambling. (in AM, use be expelled)… … English dictionary
send down — verb a) To expel an undergraduate from university. He was sent down from Oxford for theft. b) To bowl. Eventually she was caught, and sent down for twelve years … Wiktionary
send down — remove; dispatch (to someone making an appeal) … English contemporary dictionary
send — W1S1 [send] v past tense and past participle sent [sent] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(by post etc)¦ 2¦(radio/computer etc)¦ 3¦(person to place)¦ 4 send (somebody) a message/signal 5 send your love/regards/best wishes etc 6¦(cause to move)¦ 7 send… … Dictionary of contemporary English
send — /send/ verb past tense and past participle sent /sent/ 1 BY POST/RADIO ETC (T) to arrange for something to go or be taken to another place, especially by post: send sb a letter/message/card: Honestly, I get tired of sending Christmas cards. |… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
