TRANSFERRING Synonyms: 171 Similar and Opposite Words

transferring

verb

present participle of transfer

as in ceding

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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as in transmitting

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 sending

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 removing

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

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as in handing

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 passing

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

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Recent Examples of transferring From Nanjing Port, the bunker vessel took over the rest of the journey, carrying 1,000 metric tons of clean fuel before transferring it safely to Mineral Europa. — Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026 Gifting or transferring shares after a sale or offering has progressed too far leaves room for the Internal Revenue Service to challenge the valuation. — Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026 The device was sophisticated and incorporated advanced encryption, audio monitoring capabilities, and a mechanism for transferring data designed to evade monitoring, according to OpenAI. — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026 An event can therefore become less about transferring information and more about creating the conditions where useful decisions and relationships develop. — Bankim Chandra, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026 McCullar, a 6-foot-7, 210-pound native of San Antonio, Texas, played during the 2022-23 and ’23-24 seasons at KU after transferring from Texas Tech, then was selected by Phoenix with the 56th overall pick in the 2024 NBA Draft. — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2026 With roads around the hospital unsafe, transferring patients to other facilities was not an option in the first hours of the attack, while sending ambulances into the field risked exposing them to Hamas ambushes. — Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026 Cash does not mean skipping the closing process Another common misunderstanding is that selling for cash removes the normal legal steps involved in transferring real estate. — Ascend Agency, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026 SpaceX has taken some baby steps to this end already, successfully transferring propellant from one internal tank to another on Ship during Flight 3 back in March 2024. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 29 Sep. 2026

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Verb

For the rest of the show, Love sat in place, singing along but ceding his usual lead vocals and master of ceremonies roles to others.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
That war of wills ended with the Emirates ceding control of Bab el-Mandeb — along with the nearby island of Perim, where the Emirates had built a drone airbase — to Saudi Arabia.

— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026

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That role demands reliable equipment capable of transmitting strategic instructions during severe national security crises.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
The latest hotter than expected PPI figures indicate that price pressures are now transmitting from the energy sector into the broader real economy.

— , CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026

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Tesla's third-quarter delivery numbers declined 2% from the year prior but nevertheless topped estimates, sending the stock surging.

— Caleigh Keating, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2026
The upshot of this is that George, who works the room in a sharp gray suit, a few tattoos peeking out, has plenty of opportunities to charismatically make things right, shaking hands and clasping shoulders and sending over lull-filling drinks.

— Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of sending

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Doctors then discussed removing his tongue, according to Rockett.

— Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026
The 71-year-old first American pope was admitted to the Gemelli hospital on Tuesday with doctors removing a nodule that was determined to be pulmonary adenocarcinoma, the most common type of lung cancer.

— Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of removing

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Chisell, who previously worked at Amazon, eBay and Starling Bank, estimates that Paysend can now deliver around 25% more engineering work with the same-sized team, but argues that getting results isn’t as simple as handing everyone the latest tech.

— Lindsay Dodgson, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2026
The pro-Western opposition parties won big Saturday in the Czech Republic’s vote to fill one-third of the seats in Parliament’s upper house, the Senate, handing a blow to the ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of handing

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Upon passing through a deep portico entryway abutting an attached two-car garage, a vaulted reception gallery sits beneath a prominent glass atrium.

— Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2026
In an Austin school district where buses are equipped with cameras, Waymos were recorded illegally passing them more than twenty times in the past school year—a problem that persisted even after the company tried to fix it.

— Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

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Rather than assigning a class based on a single characteristic, the system considers combinations of properties, including texture, mineralogy, pH and profile thickness — the depth of the soil layer.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
His remarks nonetheless reinforced a judgment in the markets that the Fed would pause its rate increases, with the futures market assigning a 15% probability to an October hike as of Friday morning.

— Matt Peterson, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026

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Demonstrations over corruption and a lack of jobs have begun spreading throughout Albania.

— Reuters, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2026
On top of these lawsuits, social media platforms are facing a loss of business as bans for minors are accelerating and spreading worldwide.

— Ari Lightman, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026

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