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send out

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send someone out (for someone or something)
to send someone out to search for someone or something. We sent Gerald out for Walter, who was supposed to have been here already. Karen sent out Liz for some medicine.
See also: out, send

send out (for someone or something)

to send an order by messenger, telephone, cable, or fax that someone or something is to come or be delivered. We sent out for a public stenographer to record the will as Uncle Herman dictated it. There was no food in the refrigerator, so we decided to send out.
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send somebody out also send out somebody
to ask or demand that someone go somewhere Mom sent me out to weed the garden. Judge Carey had the jury sent out of the courtroom.
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send out something also send something out

to mail something Frank sends out about 400 Christmas cards every year. I sent the checks out by overnight mail.
Usage notes: usually said about sending a lot of things
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Astor learnt that the Northwest Company were preparing to send out an armed ship of twenty guns, called the Isaac Todd, to form an establishment at the mouth of the Columbia.
Shall I send out the various checks to those men in Paris, New York, Frankfort, St.
We will send out a small force; a small one will be more likely to succeed than a large one.
 
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