Usually means: Movement of something from one place.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. transfer: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. transfer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. transfer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. transfer: Collins English Dictionary
  5. transfer: Vocabulary.com
  6. Transfer, transfer: Wordnik
  7. transfer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. transfer: Wiktionary
  9. transfer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. transfer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. transfer: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. transfer: Dictionary.com
  13. transfer (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. transfer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Transfer (Smash), The Transfer, Transfer (association football), Transfer (computing), Transfer (football), Transfer (group theory), Transfer (journal), Transfer (patent), Transfer (propaganda), Transfer (public transit), Transfer (rhetoric), Transfer (travel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. transfer: Rhymezone
  17. Transfer (m), Transfer, transfer (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. transfer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. transfer: Free Dictionary
  20. transfer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Transfer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  22. transfer: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. Transfer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  24. transfer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Transfer: Lexicon of Linguistics
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. transfer: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. Transfer: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  10. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  11. transfer: Finance-Glossary.com
  12. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  13. Transfer: Investopedia
  14. Glossary of International Trade Terms (No longer online)
  15. transfer: Legal dictionary
  16. Transfer: Financial dictionary
  17. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  18. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)
  19. transfer: Law.com Dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Data Formats and Their Sugggested File Extensions (No longer online)
  2. transfer: Encyclopedia
  3. transfer: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Transfer: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. transfer: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. transfer: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. transfer: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Transfer, Transfer: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Transfer: Fifthchair Bridge
  2. Transfer: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Energy Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See transferability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
verb:  (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
verb:  (transport, of a traveler) To exit one mass transit vehicle and board another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
verb:  (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
verb:  (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
verb:  (intransitive) To move from a wheelchair to another seating surface, or to a wheelchair from another seating surface.
noun:  (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
noun:  (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
noun:  (countable, transport) An act of exiting one mass transit vehicle and boarding another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
noun:  (countable, transport) A paper receipt given to a rider of one bus (and historically also certain elevated or subway lines), allowing free entry onto another bus to continue a journey.
noun:  (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
noun:  A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.
noun:  (bridge) A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.
noun:  (sports) A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.
noun:  (countable) Of a person with limited mobility: an instance of independent or assisted movement from one stable surface to another.
noun:  (US, Canada, varsity sports) Short for transfer student. [A student who transfers from one university / college to another after studying there for a term / semester or more]

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