sending

When you write an email, a text, or a letter and you make it go to another person, you are sending it. Think of it as pushing information from you to someone else.

everyday language, communication · Modern, widely used

She is sending an email to her manager right now.

Are you sending the report to the whole team?

When you put a physical item — like a gift, a package, or a document — in the mail or with a delivery service so it travels to another place, you are sending it.

everyday language, commerce · Modern, widely used

The company is sending the wrong order to the customer.

We are sending the documents by express mail.

When someone in authority tells another person to go to a specific place or do a specific task, they are sending that person. You are not going yourself — you are making someone else go.

everyday language, business · Modern, widely used

The company is sending her to the New York office for a week.

The doctor is sending him to a specialist for further tests.

everyday language · Modern, widely used · figurative

The news was sending the whole city into a state of shock.

His jokes were sending everyone in the room into fits of laughter.