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send-off
[ send-awf, -of ]
noun
- a demonstration of good wishes for a person setting out on a trip, career, or other venture:
They gave him a rousing send-off at the pier.
- a start given to a person or thing.
Word History and Origins
Origin of send-off1
Idioms and Phrases
see send away , def. 1.Example Sentences
And in the final send-off, the Daily Show correspondents could not have been more glad...to see Oliver go.
Margaret Thatcher is to be accorded a send-off filled with pomp and ceremony in London on Wednesday.
On Thursday he took his final send-off in a patterned eggplant silk ensemble.
Thoughts on the inaugural speech, the send-off of the Bushes, and the strange karma of Dick Cheney in wheelchair.
One of our students enlisted to-day, and they're givin' him a send-off.
"It's quite a send-off for the Colonel," said Caldwell, who was wont at times to use the title facetiously.
So the stay-at-homes loyally crushed down their feeling of envy and united in a hearty send-off for their fellows.
It gave him a good send-off for the day, and saved him from many a mistake and many a worry.
We had a send-off, all the village came to seePg 318 us go away.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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