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Send down

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To cause something or someone to pass from a higher to a lower place. transitive
  2. 2
    suspend temporarily from college or university, in England wordnet
  3. 3
    To bowl.
  4. 4
    To commit (someone) to a prison term. slang, transitive

    "Eventually she was caught, and sent down for twelve years."

  5. 5
    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."

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  1. 6
    To suspend or expel (an undergraduate) from university. Ireland, UK, dated, transitive

    "He was sent down from Oxford for theft."

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