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transfer

transfer

63 3.2
A person who moves to a new job or school
  • noun
  • /ˈtrænsfɜr/
translation icon : estudiante transferido
  • The student voices in this study reflect a sample of the transfer student population at one institution.
  • a transfer student
  • a college transfer
  • a transfer program

And again, another guy who made that transfer from Auburn to Oregon.

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Examples

  • She's a newish transfer student, and I want her to make friends with the right people.

  • And you're Brook Stonebridge, our transfer from Hawaii.

  • My mother was accepted as a transfer student at the University of Chicago.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Despite tight schedules, the transfer students were interested in and valued social engagement and learning.

    Academic text (2013)
  • School has always been recognized as an institution for the transfer of knowledge and culture to future generations.

    Academic text (2008)
  • The program aims to prepare students for transfer to colleges and universities.

    Academic text (2015)
  • The findings from this study support the centrality of academic engagement among a transfer student population.

    Academic text (2013)
  • As a transfer student, she faced new challenges adapting to a different school environment.

  • After completing her first year, he applied for a transfer to another university for better programs.

  • The company announced a transfer of several employees to their new office in another city.

Synonyms

transferee
vstransfer
  • Specialized
6.9

A person who moves from one job, school, or place to another

is specifically about someone moving for work or study

Compounds

3 4.5

Money the government gives people who need help without goods or services

transfer tax
  • Formal
1 6.3

A charge you pay when property goes from one person to another

1 4.4

Sharing information and skills from one person or group to another

1 4.2

A voluntary change of who owns something that follows the law

transfer agent
  • Specialized
1 7.9

An organization that keeps records of a company's stock owners and handles transfers and cancellations of stock certificates

Paper with a special coating that lets you move a design onto another surface often using heat

transfer RNA
  • Specialized
1 4.2

A small molecule in a cell that carries amino acids to ribosomes to make proteins

A way to share files over a network that lets people download without a password

A fast digital way to send small pieces of data that are the same size, such as voice and video

3.7

A standard way for computers to send files to each other over the internet

knowledge transfer
  • Specialized
4.1

Using what one trained model learned to help another model perform better

A set of rules that lets browsers get web pages from servers

Using skills or knowledge learned in one place in another similar situation

A lab method for making clones by moving a body cell's center into an egg cell without one

How Permanent

transfer
63 3.2
short-term
225 3.3

Surface Forms

transfer singular
transfers plural

Etymology

The word transfer comes from the Latin parts trans- 'across' and ferre 'to carry'. So a transfer is someone who is 'carried across' to a new job or school, which is why we call a person who moves a transfer.