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 Instead, detectives say the group used falsified invoices and documents and transferred cash into personal bank accounts. — Chelsea Jones, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026 Defense lawyers have argued that the CIA’s treatment of Mohammed undermined the voluntariness of his later statements to the FBI, even though those interrogations took place after he was transferred to Guantanamo Bay. — Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2026 In Sunday’s interview, Ungaro mentioned her time in an ICE detention in Miami before being transferred to a detention center in Louisiana. — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2026 Ibrahim Nuhu, a banker who was transferred from the more cosmopolitan Plateau state to Sokoto, has seen the city evolve in recent years from a drab scene to a lively experience on weekends. — ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026 The king was subsequently transferred to Norway on a medical flight. — Stefania Conrieri, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026 Three whales from Marineland were previously transferred to Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut in 2021, USA TODAY reported. — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026 Sponenberg said she wasn’t told until three days later, after her son had already been transferred to a different hospital closer to their home. — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026 In mid-July, Jackie was rescued in bad shape on the shore of Big Bear Lake and transferred to the Ojai Raptor Center for treatment. — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026

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Why Chelsea ceded so much possession to Brighton is more complex — and an issue that has percolated beneath the surface for most of the BlueCo era.

— Jon Mackenzie, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Meanwhile, Apple has largely ceded the frontier AI model market to competitors such as Google and OpenAI, choosing for now to focus on delivering the new technology through its high-end hardware.

— Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of ceded

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The impact of yesterday’s sharp drop in South Korean equities transmitted further into US markets overnight, spreading selling sentiment and dealing heavy blows to US semiconductor and memory stocks.

— , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
The institute said malaria in Germany almost exclusively affects long-haul travelers who were infected in malaria-endemic areas, and that malaria transmitted within a German airport is rare, the BBC reported.

— CBS News, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of transmitted

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The war, now stretching into its seventh month, has disrupted global energy supplies and sent shockwaves through global financial markets.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026
Global supply concerns have sent benchmark corn and wheat futures to three-year highs, and soybeans are near the highest since 2024.

— Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of sent

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The deal also included no guard rails for how the $10 million should be spent, allowing it to be handed directly to two organizations without any effort to seek competitive bids.

— Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026
Crawford, a longtime supporter of Ukraine and a devotee of the American pit bull terrier, came forward and handed a reddish-yellow puppy to Zelensky.

— Laurie Kellman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of handed

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From the moment Billie learns about Sophie-Rose, the teenager who inherited her legendary fake ID after it was already passed down to multiple other Gen-Z blondes, she’s obsessed.

— Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
That's a fraction of the roughly 130 vessels that passed through the vital waterway daily before the war began.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of passed

Verb

The rule requires election officials to submit each mail voter’s name and address to a new USPS portal, along with unique Intelligent Mail barcodes assigned to the envelopes used to send and return that voter’s ballot.

— Luke Fountain, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
Such was the case for David Dastmalchian, who was filming 2021’s The Suicide Squad in Panama when the CDS assigned him a new feline companion.

— Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of assigned

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Mellencamp, 45, was initially diagnosed with melanoma that spread.

— Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Aug. 2026
But the war’s unintended consequences have spread far beyond the Middle East, affecting global security, diminishing America’s global standing, and potentially providing its adversaries with an opportunity to expand their influence.

— Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026

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