send

verb

ˈsend How to pronounce send (audio)
Definition of sendnext
as in to transmit
to cause to go or be taken from one place to another they promised to send the package in the morning

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Recent Examples of send These robots can complete short deliveries without sending another car through traffic or requiring a courier to find parking. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026 Rising Middle East tensions sent oil prices soaring this week. — Cj Haddad, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2026 Officers were sent to the street corner from which Nakira had placed the call. — Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2026 The pro-wealth-tax campaign is sending voters emails and texts and has an online presence. — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for send
Recent Examples of Synonyms for send
  1. transmit
  2. ship
  3. transport
  4. transfer
  5. dispatch
Verb
  • It can be transmitted from one animal to another and indirectly through the environment.
    — DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • When you are called ‘L’Artisan Parfumeur,’ your duty is to transmit this notion of artisanal and perfumery.
    — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of transmit
Verb
  • At $25,000, the Slate Truck costs far less than a Rivian R1T, Tesla Cybertruck, Chevy Silverado EV, or any currently shipping battery-electric truck.
    — Eric Bangeman, ArsTechnica, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Longtime sports business reporter Darren Rovell, an avid trading card and memorabilia collector since childhood, said on social media that expensive collectibles are at risk any time they are shipped.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of ship
Verb
  • The bus transports people from Kyiv to the National Military Memorial Cemetery.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
  • She was arrested for selling and transporting marijuana in 1993, and agreed to act as a confidential informant for Arizona law enforcement.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of transport
Verb
  • Those tankers transfer oil to other tankers waiting in the Gulf of Oman for shipment to customers in Asia.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
  • A lot of uncertainty remains in the lift capacity of Starship, as well as in how much cryogenic methane and liquid oxygen will boil off in orbit and how efficient the process of transferring propellants from one ship to another will be.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of transfer
Verb
  • For Daughtry, who was dispatched to work the crash by his editor that day, the assignment was one of the most disturbing of his career.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Five rescuers involved in the effort said the village’s leadership had not given them enough training or dispatched enough of them in advance of the flooding to protect the community.
    — Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of dispatch

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“Send.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/send. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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