send down

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send down

1. To cause, compel, instruct, or direct someone or something to travel to some lower location or level. A noun or pronoun can be used between "send" and "down." The team at reception was having trouble with the internet, so I sent down someone from the IT department to help them. We started sending our tools down from the roof once we were finished repairing the tiles.
2. To cause, compel, instruct, or direct someone or something to travel to some other place or location, whether or not it is physically lower than the origin. A noun or pronoun can be used between "send" and "down." The FBI is sending down a team to investigate the disturbance. Hi Sarah, could you please send Tom down to my office for his annual review?
3. To be suspended or expelled from one's university. Often used in passive constructions. Primarily heard in UK. The university sent down the two students who had participated in the prank. I worked so hard to get into Cambridge that I never did drugs, drank in the dorms, or participated in anything that could result in my being sent down.
See also: down, send
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

send someone or something down

to dispatch someone or something to some place on a lower level. They wanted someone downstairs to help with the moving, so I sent John down. I sent down John to help.
See also: down, send
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

send down

Suspend or dismiss from a university, principally a British one. For example, He's done very poorly ever since he was sent down from Oxford. [Mid-1800s]
See also: down, send
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

send down

v. Chiefly British
To suspend or dismiss someone from a university: The university sent the students down for stealing supplies. They sent down two of the students for cheating.
See also: down, send
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • orient
  • orient to
  • orient to (something)
  • not do (someone or oneself) any favors
  • rescue from
  • rescue from (someone or something)
  • identify with
  • attune to
  • ask back
  • involved with
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"My goal is to one day form an official affiliation with the NBA where each team will have its own CBA team and you can call up or send down players, similar to what they have in baseball," says Thomas.
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He felt that if he stopped, if he stood still for too long, he would root, send down taps through the concrete into the rubble of previous versions of the city, that he would never move and that eventually trouble would find him again and he would not be able to escape."
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Invocation
The caller has been telling clubs they will get exclusive representation for theartist's aftershow party if they send around pounds 5000.'' For that money so-called promoters say the artist will send down 100 of his own people for a photo session and mingle with the crowd.
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Now he hopes to raise the cash to send down a camera crew.
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Carlow to cause a surprise of sorts and send Down back to the drawing board.
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