transfer

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noun

1 change of place/situation

ADJECTIVE

▪ massive

▪

The war caused a massive transfer of population.

▪ efficient, smooth, successful

▪

the smooth transfer of power to the new government

▪ net

▪

There has been a net transfer of lower-paid people away from the inner cities.

▪ permanent

▪

Her boss recommended a permanent transfer overseas.

▪ direct

▪

Employees are paid by direct transfer to a bank account.

▪ data, information, knowledge

▪ land, property

▪ wealth (esp. AmE)

▪ population

▪ resource

▪ technology

▪ file

▪ digital, electronic, telegraphic (BrE)

▪ balance (esp. BrE), bank, capital, cash, credit, financial, money, share (esp. BrE), stock

▪ embryo, gene

▪ charge, electron, energy, heat, nuclear, thermal

VERB + TRANSFER

▪ do, effect (formal), make

▪

I did a file transfer from one PC to another.

▪

Only the owner can make a transfer of goods.

▪ allow, facilitate

TRANSFER + VERB

▪ occur, take place

TRANSFER + NOUN

▪ rate, speed

▪

data transfer rates of 6.4 GB per second

▪ process

▪ student

▪

The law schools accept a large number of second-year transfer students.

PREPOSITION

▪ transfer between

▪

the transfer of property between private buyers

▪ transfer from, transfer of

▪

the transfer of power/sovereignty

▪ transfer to

2 (BrE) in sports

ADJECTIVE

▪ free

▪ permanent

VERB + TRANSFER

▪ give sb

▪

His club have given him a free transfer.

TRANSFER + NOUN

▪ list, market, system

▪ fee, payment, price

▪ budget, kitty

▪ deadline, window

▪ deal

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verb

ADVERB

▪ carefully

▪ directly

▪

Skills cannot be transferred directly from a trainer to a trainee.

▪ easily

▪

Data is easily transferred electronically.

▪ successfully

▪ simply

▪ immediately

▪ quickly, rapidly

▪ gradually

▪ eventually

▪ temporarily

▪ formally

▪

Sovereignty was formally transferred on December 27.

▪ automatically

▪ electronically

▪ abroad (esp. BrE), overseas

▪

Assets can be transferred overseas.

▪ back, out

PREPOSITION

▪ across, between

▪

Can the disease be transferred across species?

▪ from, into

▪

She transferred the gravy into a gravy boat.

▪ onto, out of, to

▪ through, via

Transfer is used with these nouns as the object: ↑allegiance, ↑asset, ↑attention, ↑authority, ↑batter, ↑call, ↑control, ↑credit, ↑data, ↑embryo, ↑file, ↑fund, ↑information, ↑inmate, ↑knowledge, ↑lease, ↑loyalty, ↑money, ↑ownership, ↑patient, ↑responsibility, ↑sovereignty, ↑stress, ↑wealth, ↑weight