Send Down (Verb)
Meaning
Suspend temporarily from college or university, in England.
Classification
Verbs of political and social activities and events.
Examples
- The student was sent down for plagiarizing a research paper.
- The university committee decided to send him down for a year due to disciplinary reasons.
- She was sent down from Oxford after being found guilty of cheating on her exams.
- If you are found to have broken any major rules, you risk being sent down from university.
- The student union warned that any further involvement in such incidents could result in being sent down.