Definitions
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- n. A party or other celebration, usually to mark a person's retirement or departure.
- v. To show someone a red card, and dismiss them from the playing area; a red-card.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. transfer
- v. send away towards a designated goal
- v. throw, send, or cast forward
Etymologies
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Examples
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I shall send off your books, in two trunks, to Havre, within two or three days, to the care of Mr. Limozin, American agent there.
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The last sixpence had been spent for postage-stamps, in order to send off some letters to other places, and I could not even stamp a letter in answer to the one last from Worcester.
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Even these, for the sake of all we had endured together, I would not send off without a meal, a night's lodging and a guest-gift; and the Palace people who had lived softly all their lives could make of it what they chose.
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Wanstan, set a close guard at the drawbridge and send off a messenger to inform our force of the victory.
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I would have liked to send off all my people, only to sit in one of those thatched huts watching the showers drive by, hearing the stream, waiting in no haste for a late sun to dapple the water through the boughs, for the sweet moist earth-scents of evening, the blackbird's whistle, and a wagtail stepping on the grass.
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But he was very nice about it and he gave Mairi a big send off on her birthday which happened on the way back at the captain's table.
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Inspector General, Major Hale, on foot across the bridge to direct General Hays and Colonel Godwin to send and have rations brought up for their men, and just as I was preparing to send off the two dispatches left with me for General Ewell,
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They send off a petard so maladroitly, that, while it only singes the foe, it blows up whole platoons of allies.
Master William Mitten: or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents, Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck
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His letters to his people at home took on this occasion the form of a manuscript newspaper, called, in imitation of the "Kuryer Warszawski" ( "Warsaw Courier"), "Kuryer Szafarski" ( "Szafarnia Courier"), which the editor, in imitation of the then obtaining press regulation, did not send off until it had been seen and approved of by the censor, Miss Dziewanowska.
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Unbelievers outnumber them; so I would have thee at this moment send off the rest of thy troops at full speed to their suc cour, lest they be slain to the last man.
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