SEND FOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does send for mean? 

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

1. order, request, or command to come

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEND FOR (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Order, request, or command to come

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

call; send for

Context example:

Call the police!

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

enjoin; order; say; tell (give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority)

Verb group:

call (order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role)

call (call a meeting; invite or command to meet)

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

cite; summon; summons (call in an official matter, such as to attend court)

beep (call, summon, or alert with a beeper)

call back; recall (summon to return)

call in (summon to a particular activity or employment)

lift (call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs)

muster (call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc.)

hail (call for)

summon (ask to come)

call up; mobilise; mobilize; rally (call to arms; of military personnel)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Sentence example:

Sam cannot send for Sue

 Context examples 

“Mr. Spenlow's in Court, ma'am,” said the dry man; “it's an Arches day; but it's close by, and I'll send for him directly.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Can we send for any one you know?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They thought the Great Wizard would send for them at once, but he did not.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Was it not for these causes that you send for me when the great trouble came?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“I think we cannot do better,” said she; “let us send for the child.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She could not be too soon alarmed, nor send for Perry too often.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

We consulted together, however, as to what should be done, and at last she determined to send for Edward.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“Perchance it would be as well that we should send for Father Stephen,” said Sir Tristram.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Is this a hint to me, Lizzy,” said her father, “to send for the horses?”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Get the captain and squire down to the cabin, and then make some pretence to send for me.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)