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sendoff
/ ˈsɛndˌɒf /
noun
- a demonstration of good wishes to a person about to set off on a journey, new career, etc
- a start, esp an auspicious one, to a venture
verb
- to cause to depart; despatch
- sport (of the referee) to dismiss (a player) from the field of play for some offence
- informal.to give a sendoff to
Example Sentences
In the end, it was just what we signed up for: a big, splashy British sendoff that will put us into instant Olympic withdrawal.
Unlike other students, however, she got a sendoff from the commander in chief.
It was a far cry from the sendoff for Gen. Colin Powell in a 1993 ceremony that drew two presidents and the defense Secretary.
Not exactly a rousing sendoff for young men and women off to fight and perhaps die.
A man who was branded Wacko Jacko turned out to get the biggest sendoff we will probably ever see.
Whit like a sendoff did yer wuman gie ye, Sandy, when ye left for France?
The deceased has had a fine funeral and a good sendoff, and now to business.
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