send down

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send down (third-person singular simple present sends down, present participle sending down, simple past and past participle sent down)

  1. (transitive) To cause something or someone to pass from a higher to a lower place.
  2. (cricket) To bowl.
  3. (transitive, slang) To commit (someone) to a prison term.
    Eventually she was caught, and sent down for twelve years.
  4. (baseball, 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. (transitive, UK, Ireland, usually Oxbridge slang, dated) To suspend or expel (an undergraduate) from university.
    He was sent down from Oxford for theft.
    • 1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night:
      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.
  6. (communism) 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).
    Coordinate term: sent-down

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