send sb down
— phrasal verb with send uk/send/us/send/verb [ T ] sent, sent
(PRISON)
UK US send sb up informal to send someone to prison:
He was sent down for armed robbery.
She was sent down for three years.
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Putting people in prison
- at His/Her Majesty's pleasure idiom
- bang
- bang sb up
- bar
- behind bars idiom
- bird
- hold
- immured
- imprison
- incarcerate
- internment
- jail
- lock
- pen
- remand
- restraint
- rot
- rot in jail, prison, etc. idiom
- send
- serve
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(COLLEGE)
UK old-fashioned to ask someone to leave a college or university before the end of the course because they have done something wrong:
She was sent down from Oxford for taking drugs.
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Punishing someone by sending them somewhere else
- banish
- deport
- deportee
- exile
- expatriate
- expel
- expulsion
- extraordinary rendition
- rid
- send
- send sb off
- shun
- transport