send word

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Verb

send word (third-person singular simple present sends word, present participle sending word, simple past and past participle sent word)

  1. (idiomatic) To notify by a delivered message.
    The king sent word to his enemy that he would not back down.
    • 1956 December, Michael Robbins, “End of the Border Counties Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 810:
      It is almost two o'clock, instead of 1.35, and the stationmaster is begged to send word to Riccarton about the Carlisle connection.

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