send down

1. 1.

   suspend temporarily from college or university, in England

   Synonymsrusticate

   Broadersuspend

Questions about send down

What does send down mean?

send down means "suspend temporarily from college or university, in England".

What is another word for send down?

Close synonyms include rusticate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is send down a common word?

send down is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.