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send down en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (transitive) To cause something or someone to pass from a higher to a lower place.
2. To bowl.
3. (slang, transitive) To commit (someone) to a prison term.
   • Eventually she was caught, and sent down for twelve years.
   • Crypto king or conman: is Sam Bankman-Fried about to be sent down for a century? [title] 2023 September 25, Zoe Williams, “Crypto king or conman: is Sam Bankman-Fried about to be sent down for a century?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
4. (US) To demote a player within the levels of professional baseball.
   • After performing poorly for the first month of the season, he was sent down to the minor leagues.
5. (Ireland, UK, dated, qualifier:usually Oxbridge slang, transitive) To suspend or expel (an undergraduate) from university.
   • You climbed the wall, for which you ought to be gated; and finally, you came in blotto, for which you ought to be sent down. 1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night:
   • He was sent down from Oxford for theft.
6. To send a person to the countryside to become a peasant-farmer for re-education; to get in touch with the fundamental values of peasant-based communism (as opposed to urban worker-class proletariat-based communism).

Forms

Coordinates

sent-down

Deriveds

sent-down

Translations (3)

ru отчи́слить из университе́та (to expel from university) · bg изключвам (to expel from university) · hu leültet (to commit to a prison term)