Thesaurus
transfer
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of TRANSFER
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to give over the legal possession or ownership of <Claire's grandfather agreed to transfer certain stocks to her when she turned 18>
Related Words bequeath, hand down, leave, pass (down), will; bestow, commend, commit, confer, contribute, deliver, donate, grant, hand over, move, pass, present, release, relinquish, surrender, transmit, turn in, turn over, vest, yield; consign, entrust (also intrust), trust; lease, lend, let [chiefly British], loan, rent
Phrases dispose of
Near Antonyms expropriate
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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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to change the place or position of <transferred the car keys from my pocket to my purse>
Synonyms budge, dislocate, displace, disturb, relocate, remove, reposition, shift, transfer, transpose
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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>
Synonyms commend, commit, confide, consign, delegate, deliver, entrust (also intrust), give over, hand, hand over, leave, pass, recommend, repose, transfer, transmit, trust, turn over, vest
Related Words confer, grant; assign, deal (out), dispense, disperse, distribute, divide; hand in, release, relinquish, submit, surrender, turn in, yield; bequeath, hand down, hand on, will; advance, lend, loan; furnish, supply; recommit, redeliver, regive, retransfer, retransmit
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