send for

Questions about send for

What does send for mean?

send for means "order, request, or command to come".

What is another word for send for?

Close synonyms include call. 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 for a common word?

send for 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.