transferable

See also: transférable

English

Etymology

From transfer +‎ -able. Compare inferable, deferrable.

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /trɑːnsˈfɜːrəbl̩/, /ˈtrɑːnsf(ə)rəbl̩/, (also) /trænsˈfɜːrəbl̩/, /ˈtrænsf(ə)rəbl̩/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /trænsˈfɝrəbl̩/, /ˈtrænsfr̩əbl̩/

Adjective

transferable (not comparable)

1. Able to be transferred.

   To start a new career, you need transferable skills.

   • 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution, London: […] J. S. Jordan, […], →OCLC, page 129:

     The rights of men in ſociety, are neither deviſeable, nor transferable, nor annihilable, but are deſcendable only; and it is not in the power of any generation to intercept finally, and cut off the deſcent.

Derived terms

• nontransferable
• single transferable vote
• transferable skill

 

Translations

able to be transferred

Catalan: transferible Danish: overførbar Finnish: siirrettävä (fi) French: transférable (fr) Italian: cedibile, trasferibile (it), trasmissibile (it) Latin: ambulātilis, ambulātōrius Manx: yn-astreeaghey Norwegian: Bokmål: overførbar Nynorsk: overførbar Portuguese: transferível (pt) Swedish: överförbar (sv)