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    SEND AWAY

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     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or positionplay

    Example:

    The company terminated 25% of its workers

    Synonyms:

    can; dismiss; displace; fire; force out; give notice; give the axe; give the sack; sack; send away; terminate

    Classified under:

    Verbs of political and social activities and events

    Hypernyms (to "send away" is one way to...):

    remove (remove from a position or an office)

    Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "send away"):

    retire (make (someone) retire)

    pension off (let go from employment with an attractive pension)

    clean out (force out)

    furlough; lay off (dismiss, usually for economic reasons)

    squeeze out (force out)

    dismiss; drop; send away; send packing (stop associating with)

    Sentence frames:

    Somebody ----s somebody
    Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Stop associating withplay

    Example:

    They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock

    Synonyms:

    dismiss; drop; send away; send packing

    Classified under:

    Verbs of political and social activities and events

    Hypernyms (to "send away" is one way to...):

    can; dismiss; displace; fire; force out; give notice; give the axe; give the sack; sack; send away; terminate (terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position)

    Verb group:

    drop (terminate an association with)

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s somebody

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