Word Meanings - TRANSFER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion. 2. To make over the possession or control of; to pass;

Additional info about word: TRANSFER

1. To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion. 2. To make over the possession or control of; to pass; to convey, as a right, from one person to another; to give; as, the title to land is transferred by deed. 3. To remove from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone. Tomlinson. Syn. -- To sell; give; alienate; estrange; sequester.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TRANSFER)

• Alienate
• Estrange
• abalienate
• transfer
• wean
• disaffect
• convey
• Conduct Lead
• bring
• carry
• direct
• guide
• control
• manage
• administer
• Convey
• Take
• relegate
• bear
• transmit
• consign
• transport
• remove
• trail
• Copy
• transcript
• sketch
• abstract
• order
• check
• Grant
• Give
• allot
• bestow
• confer
• admit
• allow
• concede
• impart
• yield
• cede

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TRANSFER)

• Loose
• liberate
• instigate
• accelerate
• license
• indulge
• allow
• abet
• Neglect
• abandon
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct

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