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Phrase(s): send after someone or something
to request that someone or something be brought; to send for someone or something. • You really ought to send after a doctor. • Let’s send after a taxi to take us to the airport., Phrase(s): send someone after someone or something
to send someone to get someone or something. • Please send John after the doctor. This is an emergency. • The telephone was out so we sent someone after an ambulance.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs