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sendoff

/send-awf, -of/US // ˈsɛndˌɔf, -ˌɒf //UK // (ˈsɛndˌɒf) //

送行,送别,送客,欢送会

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • In the end, it was just what we signed up for: a big, splashy British sendoff that will put us into instant Olympic withdrawal.

  • Unlike other students, however, she got a sendoff from the commander in chief.

  • It was a far cry from the sendoff for Gen. Colin Powell in a 1993 ceremony that drew two presidents and the defense Secretary.

  • Not exactly a rousing sendoff for young men and women off to fight and perhaps die.

  • A man who was branded Wacko Jacko turned out to get the biggest sendoff we will probably ever see.

  • Whit like a sendoff did yer wuman gie ye, Sandy, when ye left for France?

  • The deceased has had a fine funeral and a good sendoff, and now to business.