transfer

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Meanings
verb
  • move from one place to another.
    E.g. he intends to transfer the fund's assets to the Treasury
  • change to another place, route, or means of transport during a journey.
    E.g. passengers have to transfer at Heathrow for onward international flights
  • make over the possession of (property, a right, or a responsibility) to another.
    E.g. we will transfer full planning responsibility to local authorities
  • change (the sense of a word or phrase) by extension or metaphor.
    E.g. between Latin and English, the sense was transferred from the inhabitants to the place
noun
  • an act of moving something or someone to another place, organization, team, etc.
    E.g. a transfer of wealth to the EU's poorer nations
  • a small coloured picture or design on paper, which can be transferred to another surface by being pressed or heated.
    E.g. T-shirts with iron-on transfers
  • an act of changing to another place, route, or means of transport during a journey.
    E.g. bus transfers between the airport and the city centre cost about £11

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