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ALL meanings of sendoff

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  • noun sendoff a demonstration of good wishes for a person setting out on a trip, career, or other venture: They gave him a rousing send-off at the pier. 1
  • noun sendoff a start given to a person or thing. 1
  • verb with object sendoff to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college. 1
  • verb with object sendoff to cause to be conveyed or transmitted to a destination: to send a letter. 1
  • verb with object sendoff to order, direct, compel, or force to go: The president sent troops to Asia. 1
  • verb with object sendoff to direct, propel, or deliver to a particular point, position, condition, or direction: to send a punch to the jaw; The punch sent the fighter reeling. 1
  • verb with object sendoff to emit, discharge, or utter (usually followed by off, out, or through): The lion sent a roar through the jungle. 1
  • verb with object sendoff to cause to occur or befall: The people beseeched Heaven to send peace to their war-torn village. 1
  • verb with object sendoff Electricity. to transmit (a signal). to transmit (an electromagnetic wave or the like) in the form of pulses. 1
  • verb with object sendoff Slang. to delight or excite: Frank Sinatra's records used to send her. 1
  • verb without object sendoff to dispatch a messenger, agent, message, etc. 1
  • verb without object sendoff Electricity. to transmit a signal: The ship's radio sends on a special band of frequencies. 1
  • idioms sendoff send packing, to dismiss curtly; send away in disgrace: The cashier was stealing, so we sent him packing. 1
  • idioms sendoff send round, to circulate or dispatch widely: Word was sent round about his illness. 1
  • noun sendoff a demonstration of good wishes to a person about to set off on a journey, new career, etc 0
  • noun sendoff a start, esp an auspicious one, to a venture 0
  • verb sendoff to cause to depart; despatch 0
  • verb sendoff (of the referee) to dismiss (a player) from the field of play for some offence 0
  • verb sendoff to give a sendoff to 0
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