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send-off

[ send-awf, -of ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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.

1855–60, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase send off

see send away , def. 1.

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.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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