TRANSFER | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of transfer in English transferverb uk /trænsˈfɜːr/ us /ˈtræns.fɝː/ -rr- Add to word list Add to word list B1 [ T ] to move someone or something from one place, vehicle, person, or group to another: be transferred to He has been transferred to a psychiatric hospital.transfer something from something to something She transferred her gun from its shoulder holster to her handbag.be transferred from something into something We were transferred from one bus into another.be transferred from/out of Police are investigating how £20 million was illegally transferred from/out of the trust's bank account.transfer power/control/responsibility to The aim is to transfer power/control/responsibility to self-governing regional councils. to arrange for someone to answer phone calls received on one telephone on another telephone: transfer something up I'll be upstairs, so could you transfer my phone calls up there, please? B2 [ I or T, usually + adv/prep ] to change to a different job, team, place of work, etc., or to make someone do this: transfer to After a year he transferred to University College, Dublin.transfer someone to something My employer wanted to transfer me to another department. Some very high-profile players have transferred to clubs abroad. He threatened to give up playing if his club didn't transfer him (= sell him to another team). [ T ] to make something the legal property of another person: transfer something to someone She transferred the house to her daughter before she died.

• The new government's policy is to transfer state industries from the public sector to the private sector.
• It was his instinct for self-preservation that led him to abandon his former friends and transfer his allegiance to the new rulers.
• I transferred the mixture to an oven-proof dish.
• She has transferred her affection to someone else now.
• He transferred to the Paris branch in May.

Transferring and transporting objects

• air freight
• bearer
• blockade runner
• borne
• bring
• carrier
• carry
• collect
• deliver
• freight train
• goods train
• haulage
• haulier
• heft
• transplantation
• turnaround
• turnaround time
• uplift
• virement
• wheel

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Changing homes & moving Communications - by telephone Promoting staff Inheriting & bequeathing

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transferable transfernoun uk /ˈtræns.fɜːr/ us /ˈtræns.fɝː/

transfer noun (MOVE/CHANGE)

B2 the movement of something or someone from one place, position, etc. to another: the transfer of informationtransfer to Black's transfer to the Austin office came as a shock his colleagues.transfer of The official transfer of ownership will take a few days to complete.

• His transfer to Liverpool hit the headlines.
• Any transfer of cash must be registered.
• The transfer of responsibility to our department means a heavier workload.

Promoting staff

• aggrandizement
• anointment
• ascend
• ascension
• career ladder
• downgrade someone/something to something
• elevate
• enthrone
• exalt
• fast track
• kick someone upstairs idiom
• Peter Principle
• promote
• promotion
• reinstall
• relegate
• subordinate
• waive
• waiver
• wilderness years idiom

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Transferring and transporting objects

transfer noun (SPORTS)

[ C ] a player who has moved from one sports team to another, or the action of doing this: transfer from He came to the team as a transfer from Tottenham.transfer fee UK The transfer fee for Darren Brinkworth was £500,000.transfer list UK The club's top goalkeeper is on the transfer list.transfer market UK transfer window UK He will probably be leaving the club when the transfer window opens in January. Competitors & participants in sports & games

• anchorman
• attacker
• back four
• baller
• ballplayer
• finalist
• juco
• judoka
• letterman
• logroller
• long-jumper
• matador
• opponent
• scalp
• striker
• swingman
• target man
• team sheet
• teammate
• time trialist

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transfer noun (TRANSPORT)

[ C ] transport provided between two places, for example between an airport and hotel: The price includes flight, hotel and all transfers. Travelling

• active transportation
• active travel
• around Robin Hood's barn idiom
• bag drop
• bourne
• communication
• commute
• first class
• on the go idiom
• overnighter
• override
• peripatetically
• ply
• pre-travel
• public transport
• Robin Hood
• transport
• travelled
• traverse
• visa

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transfer noun (TRAVEL TICKET)

[ C ] US a ticket that allows a passenger to change routes or to change from one bus or train to another Tickets

• accommodation
• apex
• boarding pass
• bus pass
• coach class
• e-ticket
• half
• pass
• railcard
• rain check
• return fare
• return ticket
• round fare
• round-trip ticket
• standby
• tap in phrasal verb
• ticketing
• timed ticket
• touch
• walk-up price

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transfer noun (PATTERN)

[ C ] a picture or pattern that can be attached to a surface by pressing it against the surface and then rubbing or heating it: The kids bought transfers and ironed them onto their T-shirts. Compare decal mainly US Pictures

• abstract
• active matrix
• anamorphosis
• aquatint
• autostereogram
• balloon
• foreground
• fresco
• gesture drawing
• golden triangle
• gouache
• graphic arts
• pastel
• pixelated
• polyptych
• poster
• raster
• rehang
• upscale
• woodcut

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transfer | American Dictionary

transferverb [ I/T ] us /trænsˈfɜr, ˈtræns·fər/ -rr- Add to word list Add to word list to move from one place, person, or position to another, or to cause someone or something to move: [ I ] She studied for two years at Smith College, then transferred to the University of Chicago. [ T ] Transfer your weight to your front foot as you swing. When property is transferred to someone, legal ownership is changed from one person to another: [ T ] Franklin transferred the car to his brother.

transferable

adjective us/trænsˈfɜr·ə·bəl/ Prizes are not transferable except to a surviving spouse. transfernoun [ C/U ] us /ˈtræns·fər/ a move from one place, person, or position to another : [ C ] I got my money through an electronic transfer into my account. (Definition of transfer from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

transfer | Business English

transferverb uk /trænsˈfɜːr/ us -rr- Add to word list Add to word list [ T ] to move someone or something from one place to another: transfer sb/sth to sth The company is to transfer 1500 jobs to India by the end of the year. Anyone transferring a pension from one company to another could be hit by early exit penalties. The idea is to transfer all the firm's operational business to the web. [ I or T ]   WORKPLACE to change to a different job, team, place of work, or situation, or to make someone do this: transfer to sth A small number of employees will be offered a chance to transfer to California.transfer sb to sth The manager transferred him to another store.transfer between sth You can transfer between ISA providers during the tax year. [ T ]   BANKING, FINANCE to move money from one account to another: transfer sth to/into sth The money will be transferred into your bank account. He opened an instant access account and transferred his savings. [ T ]   IT to move data from one computer, system, etc. to another: transfer sth to sth All forms have been transferred to disk. [ T ]   LAW to make something the legal property of another person: transfer sth to sb Married couples do not have to pay this tax if property is transferred from one to the other after death. [ T ]   COMMUNICATIONS to pass a phone call from one phone to another: transfer sb to sb Please hold while I transfer you to my supervisor. transfernoun uk /ˈtrænsfɜːr/ us [ U ] the process of moving someone or something from one place to another: Very little of the bank's business will be affected by the parent group's transfer of jobs to Asia. Technical problems were delaying the money transfer. [ C ] an occasion when someone or something moves from one place to another: Many merchants who prefer electronic transfers to dealing with the paper checks. This account requires 14 days' notice for transfers out. He loved living there but had to sell because of a job transfer. [ U ]   LAW the act of making something the legal property of another person: You will need to pay a solicitor to handle the transfer of ownership of the property from the seller to you.

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balance transfer bank transfer blank transfer book transfer cable transfer capital transfer tax credit transfer deed of transfer file transfer telegraphic transfer wireless transfer (Definition of transfer from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of transfer

transfer Bilinguals produced both semantic and syntactic transfers in their two languages, suggesting that semantic and syntactic representations influence each other across languages during bilingual production. From the Cambridge English Corpus The land was most likely to be transferred to the eldest son of the first marriage. From the Cambridge English Corpus They can then be easily picked up with a small moistened paint-brush and transferred at once to the alcohol in the collecting tubes. From the Cambridge English Corpus Bags were placed in plastic containers containing ice packs and transferred to the laboratory. From the Cambridge English Corpus At the same time, third instar larvae were transferred to the upper surface of the first fully opened mature leaf of individual plants. From the Cambridge English Corpus Increased transfers were quickly accepted as inevitable, and within a few years embraced as desirable. From the Cambridge English Corpus Even in the final period of our study, 1825-1849, almost two-thirds of the transfers between parents and children involved retirement. From the Cambridge English Corpus Rights-based arguments founder on the difficulties of transferring a general moral claim of an individual patient to a specific claim against individual physicians. From the Cambridge English Corpus Selection of children to provide care : the effect of earlier parental transfers. From the Cambridge English Corpus The transfers were coded 1 if the help is given and 0 otherwise. From the Cambridge English Corpus Overall, the findings indicate that among married men and women the most consistent and strongest effects of socio-economic status are on transfers of money. From the Cambridge English Corpus The second effect that will be examined is that of parents' health on the transfers of money and help to children. From the Cambridge English Corpus If there is too little regulation, excessive costs may be imposed on third parties and the net social benefits of transfers may be negative. From the Cambridge English Corpus There exist practical difficulties of actually implementing technology transfers, however. From the Cambridge English Corpus As already stated, transferred rights are mainly exclusion rights. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of transfer These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Collocations with transfer

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automatic transferThey will provide automatic transfer for front-line service staff, to ensure that there is no disruption to essential local services over the reorganisation period. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0   cash transferHere basic income is meant to be a fully unconditional cash transfer. From the Cambridge English Corpus   direct transferThis function represents the local and direct transfer of kinetic energy to small scales. From the Cambridge English Corpus   These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with transfer What is the pronunciation of transfer?

Translations of transfer

in Chinese (Traditional) 搬, 轉移, 轉（電話）… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 搬, 转移, 转（电话）… See more in Spanish trasladar, traslado, jugador transferido… See more in Portuguese transferir, transferência, decalque… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian बदलणे, हलवणे, वळवणे… See more ～を移動させる, 搬送する, 移（うつ）す… See more nakletmek, aktarmak, transfer etmek… See more (faire) transférer, muter, transférer à… See more traslladar… See more verplaatsen, overplaatsen, overdragen… See more வாகனம், நபர், அல்லது குழுவை ஒரு இடத்தில் இருந்து மற்றொரு இடத்திற்கு மாற்ற / நகர்த்த… See more ट्रांसफर करना, स्थानांतरित करना, (किसी अन्य नौकरी… See more કોઈ વ્યક્તિ કે વસ્તુને એક જગ્યા, વાહન, વ્યક્તિ… See more flytte, overflytte, overføre… See more flytta över, förflytta, omplacera… See more memindahkan, bertukar, menukarkan… See more verlegen, versetzen, übertragen… See more flytte, bli flyttet, overføre… See more منتقل کرنا, تبدیل کرنا, تبادلہ کرنا… See more переносити, переміщати, переїжджати… See more బదిలీ, తరలించు, ఏదైనా లేదా ఎవరైనా ఒక ప్రదేశం… See more স্থানান্তর করা, বদলি হয়ে যাওয়া বা বদলি করে দেওয়া, স্থানান্তরীকরণ… See more přenést, přesídlit, přeložit… See more memindahkan, menghibahkan, pemindahan… See more ย้าย, เปลี่ยนตำแหน่ง, โอน… See more dời, chuyển, dọn… See more przenosić, przelewać, przenosić (się)… See more 옮기다… See more trasferire, spostare, trasferirsi… See more Need a translator?

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    • transfer (MOVE/CHANGE)
    • transfer (SPORTS)
    • transfer (TRANSPORT)
    • transfer (TRAVEL TICKET)
    • transfer (PATTERN)
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    • transfer
  • Adjective 
    • transferable
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