transferred

Transferred is the past tense and past participle of the verb transfer. To transfer means to move something from one place to another, to convey or assign something such as rights, property, or responsibility, or to relocate a person or object from one context to another. Transferred can describe a completed action or a resulting state, as in “The funds were transferred yesterday” or “The patient was transferred to another hospital.”

Etymology: From Latin transferre, via Old French transferer.

Common uses:

- Law, finance, and business: transfer of ownership, title, funds, or contractual rights; includes real estate transfers and corporate reorganizations.

- Sports: player transfers between clubs, often involving a transfer fee; sometimes arrangements are loans.

- Education: transfer students who move to another school or university; transfer credits may apply toward a degree.

- Medicine and health care: patient transfers between departments or facilities or between hospitals; the term is used in administrative and clinical contexts.

- Computing and information technology: data transfer, file transfer, and memory or process transfers within systems.

- Physics and engineering: transfer of energy, momentum, or heat, and signal transfer in devices.

Usage notes: Transferred is commonly used in formal writing and in documentation. Related terms include transfer, transferee (the recipient), and transferor (the sender), as well as transferral, a synonymous noun form in some varieties of English.