send down

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send down (third-person singular simple present sends down, present participle sending down, simple past and past participle sent down)

1. (transitive) To cause something or someone to pass from a higher to a lower place.
2. (cricket) To bowl.
3. (transitive, slang) To commit (someone) to a prison term.

   Eventually she was caught, and sent down for twelve years.

   • 2023 September 25, Zoe Williams, “Crypto king or conman: is Sam Bankman-Fried about to be sent down for a century?”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Crypto king or conman: is Sam Bankman-Fried about to be sent down for a century? [title]

4. (baseball) To demote a player within the levels of professional baseball.

   After performing poorly for the first month of the season, he was sent down to the minor leagues.

5. (transitive, UK, Ireland, usually Oxbridge slang, dated) To suspend or expel (an undergraduate) from university.

   He was sent down from Oxford for theft.