TRANSFERRED Synonyms: 172 Similar and Opposite Words

transferred

verb

past tense of transfer

as in ceded

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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expropriated

as in transmitted

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 sent

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 relocated

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

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as in handed

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 passed

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

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Recent Examples of transferred Spain moves kings’ remains to avoid fire Spanish authorities on Thursday night transferred the remains of three 11th century kings from a monastery in the northeastern Aragón region near an active wildfire. — Angela Charlton, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026 Rose also told the court that the EEOC has transferred the case to another administrative judge, who on Monday issued an order scheduling further proceedings. — ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026 Louise was transferred to a neo-natal unit in St George’s Hospital, Tooting, London, away from her mother, who lost several pints of blood during the delivery. — Kelsie Gibson, PEOPLE, 14 Aug. 2026 After her 2013 accident, Collett spent a week in a coma and only three days awake in hospital before being transferred to Oaksey House in Oxfordshire, England, the Injured Jockeys Fund’s rehabilitation centre. — Gemma Redrup, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026 She was transferred to the Ojai Raptor Center for care, where she was diagnosed with severe anemia. — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Aug. 2026 The Navy official said that a sailor aboard the Lincoln went overboard in early August but that the person was quickly recovered, treated by the ship’s medical department and transferred off ship for follow-on care. — Konstantin Toropin, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026 Eric Reibe, the backup last season, transferred to Southern Cal. — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2026 Dike, who transferred to Florida, was drafted in the fourth round by the Tennessee Titans in 2025. — Idaho Statesman, 13 Aug. 2026

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After the city ceded control of Riis to the federal government, in the nineteen-seventies, the monument to public recreation was shuttered.

— Jake Offenhartz, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
This is also the first film for which Vaz has ceded editing responsibilities.

— Dylan Adamson, Variety, 14 Aug. 2026

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Verb

Gajdusek had come to the idea of injecting animals after a veterinary pathologist noticed that the brains of kuru patients resembled those of sheep with scrapie, a fatal neurological disease transmitted through exposure to infected tissues.

— Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Hoodoo was transmitted orally in these early centuries and was never homogeneous.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026

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In the eighth, pinch-hitter Benintendi sent Ryan Zeferjahn's first offering into the right-field basket for a two-run homer to give the White Sox a 5-4 lead.

— CBS News, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
Only Brentford’s Michael Kayode (164) sent more long throws into the penalty area than Ampadu (135) last season, but Brenden Aaronson believes his captain is looking even more dangerous.

— Adam Crafton, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of sent

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Aparcedo and her family spent three years in a shelter following the floods before being relocated to a public housing project — which toppled in the June earthquake.

— Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Originally intended to shoot in New Mexico, production relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma after costs became prohibitive.

— Callum McLennan, Variety, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of relocated

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Its own store gives DeMellier control over a part of the customer relationship previously handed to other retailers, while putting it physically alongside businesses charging multiples of its prices.

— Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
And last week's shakeup handed day-to-day authority from DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis to his deputy, Koray Kavukcuoglu, who now has final say on major DeepMind decisions and reports to CEO Sundar Pichai.

— Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of handed

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The ban has been in place long enough that an entire cohort of girls has passed through adolescence without stepping foot in a secondary school classroom.

— Kara Fox, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
Castillo’s bill passed unanimously in the Assembly earlier this year and sailed through the Senate Judiciary Committee in June with bipartisan support.

— Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of passed

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Beyond seeking members' votes, campaigns and the party look to organized labor for help in spreading Democrats' message to voters and getting people to the polls.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026
And alumni are among the college’s best ambassadors for spreading that message, insists Emma Donatille, executive director of the WCC Foundation that has handed out nearly $440,000 in scholarships over the years.

— Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026

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