Idiom
send away for
Meaning
To write to a business or other organisation, requesting a thing.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I will send away for the free catalog today.”
“She decided to send away for the replacement parts after the store told her they were out of stock.”
“Rather than waiting for the local shops to restock, he chose to send away for the rare book directly from the publisher's warehouse.”
Examples
simple
“I will send away for the free catalog today.”
contextual
“She decided to send away for the replacement parts after the store told her they were out of stock.”
complex
“Rather than waiting for the local shops to restock, he chose to send away for the rare book directly from the publisher's warehouse.”
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