send off

Questions about send off

What does send off mean?

send off means "send away towards a designated goal". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for send off?

Close synonyms include dispatch, despatch, project, send, get off. 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 off a common word?

send off is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.