transfer
/trænsˈfɜːr/ verb (present participle transferring, past tense and past participle transferred)Definition
MOVE [T] › to move someone or something from one place to another: She was later transferred to a different hospital. I'll transfer some money into my other account.
CHANGE JOB/TEAM ETC [I, T] › to change to a different job, team, place of work, etc, or to make someone do this: After a year he transferred to University College, Dublin.
CHANGE OWNER [T] › to change who owns or controls something: We had all the documents transferred to my name.
transfer /ˈtrænsfɜːr/ noun [C, U] › It speeds up the transfer of information from one office to another. I'm hoping for a transfer to the Brussels office.(Definition of transfer verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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