TRANSFERS Synonyms: 171 Similar and Opposite Words

transfers

verb

present tense third-person singular of transfer

as in cedes

to give over the legal possession or ownership of Claire's grandfather agreed to transfer certain stocks to her when she turned 18

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as in transmits

to cause (something) to pass from one to another they used Morse Code to transfer the message from one ship to another

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as in sends

to cause to go or be taken from one place to another will have to transfer you from our San Francisco office to our New York headquarters

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as in moves

to change the place or position of transferred the car keys from my pocket to my purse

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as in leaves

to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another before she left the country, she transferred all her record books and important papers to her mother

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as in hands

to shift possession of (something) from one person to another transferred the ball to the running back

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Recent Examples of transfers Writing for the screen for the first time, Jonas transfers that internal monologue into confessions that Weisz speaks aloud; the only caveat, of course, is that what Weisz’s character tells us may not in fact be true. —

Daniel D'addario, Variety, 5 Mar. 2026 Trautwein brought Penn State transfers TJ Shanahan, a guard has 10 college starts, and backup tackle Egan Boyer to Gainesville. —

Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2026 The state transfers revenue from cannabis sales taxes and fees to the Missouri Department of Veterans, Missouri Public Defender's Office and Department of Health and Senior Services' Substance Use Disorder Grant Program. —

Emery Glover, Des Moines Register, 26 Feb. 2026 The facility works closely with Hoover Dam and transfers power to the Los Angeles basin, McMahill said. —

CBS News, 20 Feb. 2026 The transfer shell game The problems compound when ICE transfers detainees without notice, a practice attorneys said is a kind of shell game designed to frustrate legal challenges. —

Ben Fenwick, Oklahoma Watch, 13 Feb. 2026 Save Your Pay, which transfers a percentage of each paycheck into savings, and Save Your Change, which rounds up checking account transactions to the nearest dollar and transfers the difference to savings. —

Andreina Rodriguez, CNBC, 10 Feb. 2026 Bodyman centers on a violent power struggle that unfolds during a family Christmas gathering after an eccentric billionaire unexpectedly transfers control of his private military company to his longtime bodyguard, played by Jonas, instead of to his adult children. —

Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 10 Feb. 2026 Using a flashback structure that details Eleanor’s life from the 1950s on, balanced against the present-day story of her two children, Black Cake transfers Wilkerson’s continent- and decades-spanning story to screen. —

Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Jan. 2026

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The specialization that cedes politics, economics or communication to separate disciplines is, in sociology, an invitation to synthesize and to consider how these broad social processes engage, reinforce or conflict with one another.

— Wendy Nelson Espeland, Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2026
The lead-up to Kennedy’s circus of sci-fi fantasists and food bloggers provides an object lesson in how the left cedes fertile political territory to the right.

— Annie Levin, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2026