- a demonstration of good wishes for a person setting out on a trip, career, or other venture: They gave him a rousing send-off at the pier.
- a start given to a person or thing.
- a demonstration of good wishes to a person about to set off on a journey, new career, etc
- a start, esp an auspicious one, to a venture
- to cause to depart; despatch
- (of the referee) to dismiss (a player) from the field of play for some offence
- to give a sendoff to
