Translation guide
How to express 'send for' in Japanese, covering summoning a person, requesting an item, and ordering delivery.
To ask or tell someone to come, especially for help or a specific purpose.
To ask for something to be brought or sent to you, such as a catalog, brochure, or sample.
To have food or goods delivered to your location.
Specifically for ordering food delivery. Very common in daily life.
Please send for a doctor.
He sent for a taxi right away.
Literally 'go to call', used when you physically go to fetch someone.
Could you go and send for her?
Literally 'send a pickup', used when dispatching someone to bring a person back.
Please send someone to pick me up at the station.
To order or have something sent from another place, often used for goods not in stock.
I sent for a catalog.
We'll have to send for this book.
To request or demand something formally, such as a document or payment.
Please send for the materials.
To have someone send something to you; a casual way to say 'get them to send it'.
Can you send for a brochure?
Let's send for pizza tonight.
A more modern, loanword-based expression for ordering delivery of any kind.
I sent for sushi delivery.
General verb for ordering, can be used for delivery or takeout.
Please send for it by phone.