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verb
  1. 1
    to move from one job, office, or department to another in the same company or organization

    *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of transfer*

    To start a career or new job, or to move to a new position: join, arrive, enter, start, land, stand in, substitute, break into, attach, fill in... more
    1. a.
      to stop studying at one school or university and go to another

      *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of transfer*

      Attendance and non-attendance at school or university: absence, absenteeism, attend, attendance, audit, board, drop out, enroll, enrollment, entrance... more
    2. b.
      to move someone or something from one place to another

      *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of transfer*

      General words meaning to move something: take, propel, guide, transfer, budge, roll, shunt, manhandle, pass, advance... more
    3. c.
      to move money from one account or bank to another

      *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of transfer*

      To use a bank account: bank, borrow, close, credit, debit, deposit, draw, mortgage, open, pay in... more
    4. d.
      to move from one bus, vehicle, airplane, or boat to another as part of a longer trip

      *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of transfer*

      To get on and off of tranport: get on, board, transfer, embark, catch, change, disembarkation, off, on, deplane... more
    5. e.
      British to sell a professional sports player to another team

      *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of transfer*

      To sell something: sell, retail, peddle, auction, stock, launch, carry, move, push, hawk... more
  3. 3
    to let someone speak to another person by changing telephone lines for them

    *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of transfer*

    Using a telephone: answer, busy, busy signal, call, call back, call in, call up, caller, cut off, dial... more
  5. 5
    to copy information or images from one place or object to another

    *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of transfer*

    To make a copy of something: copy, reproduce, duplicate, photocopy, counterfeit, forge, fake, dub, run off, knock off... more

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