SEND AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does send away mean? 

• SEND AWAY (verb)
  The verb SEND AWAY has 2 senses:

1. stop associating with

2. terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

  Familiarity information: SEND AWAY used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEND AWAY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stop associating with

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

dismiss; drop; send away; send packing

Context example:

They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock

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

can; dismiss; displace; fire; force out; give notice; give the axe; give the sack; sack; send away; terminate (terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position)

Verb group:

drop (terminate an association with)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

can; dismiss; displace; fire; force out; give notice; give the axe; give the sack; sack; send away; terminate

Context example:

The company terminated 25% of its workers

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

remove (remove from a position or an office)

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

retire (make (someone) retire)

pension off (let go from employment with an attractive pension)

clean out (force out)

furlough; lay off (dismiss, usually for economic reasons)

squeeze out (force out)

dismiss; drop; send away; send packing (stop associating with)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

 Context examples 

I must send away half the servants and shut up part of the house; or let it off.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)