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sendoff
/ ˈɛԻˌɒ /
noun
- 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
verb
- to cause to depart; despatch
- sport (of the referee) to dismiss (a player) from the field of play for some offence
- informal.to give a sendoff to
Example Sentences
She had a moving sendoff, putting her back in the plane with her younger self and with the younger versions of Javi and Lottie, all encouraging her to go towards the light.
Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath frontman and self-proclaimed Prince of Darkness, is ready for a heavy-metal sendoff after facing issues with his health in recent years.
“I was equipped to do the job here the old way,” Bennett told reporters at a tearful sendoff.
So Monday night — as much as it was billed as a gratitude-driven sendoff — was also a forced retirement for a guy who does know more about government and governance than half of Congress combined.
She lamented that the home did not have some kind of ceremonious sendoff — final tours for architecture students, a celebratory cocktail hour, donation of materials for architectural studies — before it was torn down.
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