send word
verb1
Idiomatic To notify by a delivered message.
- The king sent word to his enemy that he would not back down.
- It is almost two o'clock, instead of 1.35, and the stationmaster is begged to send word to Riccarton about the Carlisle connection.1956 December, Michael Robbins, “End of the Border Counties Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 810: