send down

verb6

1. •
   To cause something or someone to pass from a higher to a lower place.
2. •
   (slang) To commit (someone) to a prison term.

   • Eventually she was caught, and sent down for twelve years.
3. •
   (US) To demote a player within the levels of professional baseball.

   • After performing poorly for the first month of the season, he was sent down to the minor leagues.
4. •
   (UK, old-fashioned) To suspend or expel (an undergraduate) from university.

   • He was sent down from Oxford for theft.
5. •
   To bowl.
6. •
   To send a person to the countryside to become a peasant-farmer for re-education; to get in touch with the fundamental values of peasant-based communism (as opposed to urban worker-class proletariat-based communism).