TRANSFERRAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transferral mean? 

• TRANSFERRAL (noun)
  The noun TRANSFERRAL has 1 sense:

1. the act of moving something from one location to another

  Familiarity information: TRANSFERRAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSFERRAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of moving something from one location to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

conveyance; transfer; transferral; transport; transportation

Hypernyms ("transferral" is a kind of...):

movement (the act of changing the location of something)

Meronyms (parts of "transferral"):

pickup (the act of taking aboard passengers or freight)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transferral"):

transshipment (the transfer from one conveyance to another for shipment)

airlift; lift (transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable))

connection; connexion (shifting from one form of transportation to another)

bringing; delivery (the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail))

drive (the act of driving a herd of animals overland)

carry (the act of carrying something)

lighterage (the transportation of goods on a lighter)

relocation; resettlement (the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind))

teleportation (a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another)

Derivation:

transfer (send from one person or place to another)

transfer (move from one place to another)