send on
phrasal verb
sent on; sending on; sends on
: to cause (something) to go or to be carried from one place to another
I had my mail/post sent on to my new address.
He had his baggage sent on ahead.
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That email was sent on Feb. 21 and came with a Feb. 24 deadline.
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Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2025
The invoices are for work done before a cable Rubio sent on Jan. 24 that announced a 90-day pause on new spending for foreign assistance programs funded through the State Department and USAID, according to DAI Global.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2025
In a letter sent on Feb. 12 to the F.T.C. and the Justice Department, Farm Action, a group that opposes corporate monopolies in food and agriculture, called on the agencies to look into potential monopolization and anticompetitive coordination in the industry.
—Danielle Kaye, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
His father and brother died in the gas chambers, while his mother was sent to work at the Bergen Belsen camp in northern Germany, and Turski was dispatched to work on roads in the Auschwitz-Birkenau area before being sent on two death marches.
—Vanessa Gera, Sun Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2025
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Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2025
The invoices are for work done before a cable Rubio sent on Jan. 24 that announced a 90-day pause on new spending for foreign assistance programs funded through the State Department and USAID, according to DAI Global.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2025
In a letter sent on Feb. 12 to the F.T.C. and the Justice Department, Farm Action, a group that opposes corporate monopolies in food and agriculture, called on the agencies to look into potential monopolization and anticompetitive coordination in the industry.
—Danielle Kaye, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
His father and brother died in the gas chambers, while his mother was sent to work at the Bergen Belsen camp in northern Germany, and Turski was dispatched to work on roads in the Auschwitz-Birkenau area before being sent on two death marches.
—Vanessa Gera, Sun Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2025
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“Send on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/send%20on. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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