SEND DOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does send down mean? 

• SEND DOWN (verb)
  The verb SEND DOWN has 1 sense:

1. suspend temporarily from college or university, in England

  Familiarity information: SEND DOWN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEND DOWN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Suspend temporarily from college or university, in England

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

rusticate; send down

Hypernyms (to "send down" is one way to...):

debar; suspend (bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

Birds twittered their adieux from the alders in the lane, and every tree stood ready to send down its shower of red or yellow apples at the first shake.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

‘They may do what they like, but I’ll checkmate them still,’ said he with an oath. ‘Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)