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Idiom ship off toship (someone/something) off to (somewhere) to send someone or something to a place.When Pauline was twelve, her father shipped her off to relatives in Baltimore.The kids were arrested, convicted, and shipped off to reform school.Students should ship off their applications well before the deadline.
ship (someone or something) off to (some place)To send someone or something to a certain location, often abruptly, hastily, or unceremoniously, perhaps as punishment. The kids were starting to drive us crazy, so we shipped them off to a summer camp for a few weeks. After leadership changed, the agency shipped me off to some low-level bureau. ship offv.1. To leave, as for a distant place: The soldier shipped off to the war zone. I said goodbye to my friends because I was shipping off the next day. 2. To send something or someone, as to a distant place: They shipped the prisoners off to an offshore island. We shipped off the packages. |