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SEND AROUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does send around mean? 

SEND AROUND (verb)
  The verb SEND AROUND has 1 sense:

1. forward to othersplay

  Familiarity information: SEND AROUND used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SEND AROUND (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Forward to others

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

he is sending around an appeal for funds

Hypernyms (to "send around" is one way to...):

circulate; distribute; pass around; pass on (cause to be distributed)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "send around"):

circularise; circularize (distribute circulars to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody


 Context examples 


There was no bar-keeper upon whom to call for drinks, no small boy to send around the corner for a can of beer and by means of that social fluid start the amenities of friendship flowing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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