transferable

See also: transférable

English

Alternative forms

• transferrable
• transferrible (archaic)

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

Related terms

• transferability

Translations

able to be transferred

• Catalan: transferible
• Danish: overførbar
• Finnish: siirrettävä (fi)
• French: transférable (fr)
• Galician: transferíbel (gl)
• Italian: cedibile, trasferibile (it), trasmissibile (it)
• Latin: ambulātilis, ambulātōrius
• Manx: yn-astreeaghey
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: overførbar

  Nynorsk: overførbar

• Portuguese: transferível (pt)
• Swedish: överförbar (sv)