見送り – vocab dash

見み送おくり

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Meanings

Noun

1. seeing (someone) off; send-off

2. deferment; postponement; shelving

3. letting a pitch go by

4. wait-and-see attitude

Kanji used

見see 送send something

Pitch accent

みおくり

Composed of

見み

looking; viewing

Suffix

送おくり

seeing off; sending off; funeral; escapement

Noun

Used in vocabulary

見み送おくり人にん

someone who has come to say farewell; those who have come to say farewell; people at a send-off

Noun

Examples56

私わたしは空くう港こうへ母ははを見み送おくりに行いった。

I went to the airport to see my mother off.

政せい府ふが今いま国こっ会かいへの改かい正せい案あん提てい出しゅつの見み送おくり方ほう針しんを固かためたことを歓かん迎げいする一いっ方ぽう、小泉こいずみ首しゅ相しょうが提てい出しゅつ断だん念ねんを明めい言げんしていない点てんを警けい戒かいする声こえも上あがった。

While welcoming the firming up of the present government policy to abandon the proposal of the reform bill to the Diet, at the same time some are worried that Prime Minister Koizumi won't clearly state the bill's withdrawal.

彼かの女じょは先せん生せいを見み送おくりに駅えきに行いきましたか。

Did she go to the station to see her teacher off?

彼かの女じょは先せん生せいを見み送おくりに駅えきに行いきました。

She went to the station to see her teacher off.

彼かれを見み送おくりに空くう港こうに行いった。

I went to the airport to see him off.

彼かれは彼かの女じょを見み送おくりに空くう港こうへ行いった。

He went to the airport to see her off.