SEND ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does send on mean? 

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

1. send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEND ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

forward; send on

Context example:

forward my mail

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

send; ship; transport (transport commercially)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

 Context examples 

And he calmly held letter and envelope in the flame of the lamp till they were consumed. Then he went on:—"The letter to Hawkins—that I shall, of course, send on, since it is yours. Your letters are sacred to me. Your pardon, my friend, that unknowingly I did break the seal. Will you not cover it again?"

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)