put down

Definitions

General English

• phrasal verb to place something lower down onto a surface
• phrasal verb to write something down
• phrasal verb to charge something
• phrasal verb to let passengers get off
• phrasal verb to kill an animal that is old or ill, painlessly using drugs
• phrasal verb to defeat a group of people who make an attack against people in authority

Accounting

• phrasal verb to make a deposit
• phrasal verb to write an item in a ledger or an account book

Cricket

• verb to fail to take a possible catch
  Citation ‘In Australia’s first innings there was one period of twenty minutes during which the visitors put down no less than five chances off Valentine’ (Manley 1988)
• verb (of a fielder of wicket-keeper) to dislodge either or both bails with the ball, especially so as to cause the dismissal of a batsman
  Citation ‘Sueter … and Hammond … were the two best wicket-keepers I ever saw. Both of them would put the wicket down without any flourishing or fuss’ (Nyren 1833 in HM)

Politics

• verb to stop or crush a rebellion
• verb to suggest that a motion should be debated in a meeting

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Contexts for “put down”

12 definitions in context
• General English
• Accounting
• Cricket
• Politics