sending away
Ordering to leave
Sending away is causing someone or something to leave, typically by instruction or command.
You might send away a persistent salesperson, send away for a product from a catalog, or send children away to boarding school.
The phrase often implies distance or permanence: They sent her away to live with relatives.
- dismissalRemoval from position
- shown the doorForced out, terminated
- expulsionForced permanent removal
- kicked outForced to leave
- banishmentForced removal from place
exile · deportation · eviction · marching orders · excommunication · removing · ousting · withdrawing · dispatch · mailing · release · giving notice · shipping · ostracism · cold shoulder · purging · termination · exclusion
- driving awayrepelling, banishing, forcing out, warding off, fending off
- exileexile, banishment, exiled, banished, exiling
- expulsionsejection, ousting, expelling, forcing out, eviction
sending awayreceiving
Acquiring what's sent
bringing in · summoning · calling in · fetching · importing
sending awaykeeping
Holding in custody
retaining · gathering · collecting · detaining · holding back
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