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English

Etymology

From Latin tr?nsfer? (“I bear across”).

Pronunciation

• (verb)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t???ns?f??/, /t?ænz?f??/
  • (US) enPR: tr?nsfûr?, IPA^(key): /t?æns?f?/, /?t?ænsf?/
• (noun)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t???nsf??/, /?t?ænzf??/
  • (US) enPR: 'tr?nsfûr, IPA^(key): /?t?ænsf?/

Verb

transfer (third-person singular simple present transfers, present participle transferring, simple past and past participle transferred)

1. (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.

   to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion

2. (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.

   to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone

3. (transport) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

4. (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
5. (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.

   The title to land is transferred by deed.

Synonyms

• (move or pass from one place/person/thing to another): carry over, move, onpass
• (convey impression of from one surface to another): copy, transpose
• (to be or become transferred):

Derived terms

• transferee
• transferor

Translations

Noun

transfer (countable and uncountable, plural transfers)

1. (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
2. (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
3. (transport) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

4. (countable) A paper receipt given to a rider of one bus, allowing free entry onto another bus to continue a journey.
5. (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
6. A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
7. (medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.
8. (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.
9. (bridge) A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.
10. (sports) A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.

Usage notes

• In the United Kingdom education system the noun is used to define a move from one school to another, for example from primary school to secondary school. Contrast with transition, which is used to define any move within or between schools, for example, a move from one year group to the next.

Synonyms

• (act): transferal, transference
• (instance): transferal
• (college sports): transfer student

Related terms

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English transfer.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: trans?fer

Noun

transfer m or n (plural transfers, diminutive transfertje n)

1. transfer

Synonyms

• overdracht

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English transfer.

Noun

transfer m (invariable)

1. transport
2. transfer (tourist, e.g. airport to hotel)

Latin

Verb

tr?nsfer

1. second-person singular present active imperative of tr?nsfer?

Romanian

Etymology

From French transfert.

Noun

transfer n (plural transferuri)

1. transfer

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English transfer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tr?nsfe?r/
• Hyphenation: trans?fer

Noun

trànsf?r m (Cyrillic spelling ??????????)

1. transfer
2. transport

Declension

Spanish

Noun

transfer m (plural transferes)

1. transfer (between transport)

Turkish

Etymology

From French transfert

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: trans?fer

Noun

transfer (definite accusative transferi, plural transferler)

1. transfer

Declension

References

• transfer in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

English

Etymology

From take +? over

Pronunciation

Noun

takeover (plural takeovers)

1. (economics) The purchase of one company by another; a merger without the formation of a new company, especially where some stakeholders in the purchased company oppose the purchase.
2. (economics, Britain) The acquisition of a public company whose shares are listed on a stock exchange, in contrast to the acquisition of a private company.
3. A time or event in which control or authority, especially over a facility is passed from one party to the next.
   • 1991, Information Services on Latin America (Oakland, Calif.), ISLA: Volume 43, Issues 1-3, p. 195:

     Revollo was absent when Bolivian police and the navy captain arrived at dawn, and the base takeover came off without problems, according to a U.S. narcotics official.

Derived terms

• hostile takeover

Related terms

• take over

Translations

See also

• buyout
• merger
• sellout
• tender offer

Verb

takeover

1. Misspelling of take over.

Anagrams

• overtake