Synonyms for transfer
- verb
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Move — to move or pass from one place, person or thing to another
move, take, turn over, pass, carry over, carry, give, forward, deliver, onpass rare
2. Transport
transport, transmit, channel, channelize rare, channelise UK
4. Assign
assign, convey, consign, alienate, reassign, relegate, alien, demise, devolve, abalienate rare
Noun
1. Instance
Other
transference, transferee, assignment, delivery, make-over, alienation, abalienation dated
Definitions
- v. 1
To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion
- v. 2
To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone
- v. 3
To exit one mass transit vehicle and board another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
transfer to the Blue Line
- n. 1
The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
Forms
- Plural
- transfers → conveyances, transportations, transferrals, transferences…
- Past participle
- transferred
e.g. transferred → moved, taken, passed, carried…
Choose the right word
Transfer may or may not imply delivery to another person; as, items may be transferred from one account to another or a word transferred to the following line.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- transport By what means of transport are you going home now?
- transmit We have to transmit our culture to the next generation.
- assign Tom is authorised to assign us work assignments.
- exchange Our exchange students are leaving Japan next week.
By length
- 4 letters
- take1, give1, move1, pass1, sell1, copy2
- 5 letters
- carry2, grant1, shift1, alien3
- 6 letters
- change1, remove2, convey2, assign2, demise2, onpass
- 7 letters
- forward2, channel2, deliver3, devolve2, consign2
- 8 letters
- exchange2, delivery4, transmit2, alienate3, relegate3, reassign3
- 9 letters
- transport2, negotiate4, translate2, transpose2
- 10 letters
- assignment3, transplant2, alienation5, conveyance3, transferee, channelize, channelise, abalienate
- 11 letters
- transferral
- 12 letters
- transference3, abalienation
- 14 letters
- transportation4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (copy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- transférer
- Español
- transferir
- Deutsch
- übertragen
- Català
- transferir