transferable

See also: transférable

English

Etymology

transfer +‎ -able

Pronunciation

(UK, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /trɑːnsˈfɜːrəbl̩/, /ˈtrɑːnsf(ə)rəbl̩/, (also) /trænsˈfɜːrəbl̩/, /ˈtrænsf(ə)rəbl̩/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(US, Canada) IPA^(key): /trænsˈfɝrəbl̩/, /ˈtrænsfr̩əbl̩/

Adjective

transferable (not comparable)

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

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)

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