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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: send away towards a designated goal [syn: dispatch, despatch, send off]
2: throw, send, or cast forward; "project a missile" [syn: project, send off]
3: transfer; "The spy sent the classified information off to Russia" [syn: send, get off, send off]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. When you send off a letter or package, you send it somewhere by post. He sent off copies to various people for them to read and make comments. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), also V n P 2. If a football player is sent off, the referee makes them leave the field during a game, as a punishment for seriously breaking the rules. The 30-year-old Scottish international was sent off for arguing with a linesman. PHRASAL VERB: usu passive, be V-ed P see also sending-off

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