SEND BACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does send back mean? 

• SEND BACK (verb)
  The verb SEND BACK has 1 sense:

1. refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEND BACK (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

remand; remit; send back

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

challenge (issue a challenge to)

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

Send back your answer as fast as you can, and be careful to write explicitly.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The maids do their work very well, and I think we shall be able to send back some dozens of the rings.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

One of the drones began to malfunction, but it was able to send back the data it had collected, which revealed a mass at a depth below 1400 feet.

(Lost 52 Project announces discovery of wrecked sub near Okinawa, Wikinews)

And yet I can laugh at her very grave—laugh when the clay from the spade of the sexton drop upon her coffin and say 'Thud! thud!' to my heart, till it send back the blood from my cheek.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The novelty of travelling, and the happiness of being with William, soon produced their natural effect on Fanny's spirits, when Mansfield Park was fairly left behind; and by the time their first stage was ended, and they were to quit Sir Thomas's carriage, she was able to take leave of the old coachman, and send back proper messages, with cheerful looks.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)