transferable
adjAU, NZ, UK /trɑːnsˈfɜːrəbl̩/ · CA, US /trænsˈfɝrəbl̩/
Etymology From transfer + -able. Compare inferable, deferrable.
1
Able to be transferred.
- To start a new career, you need transferable skills.
- 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.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:
- Derived terms
- intransferable, nontransferable, single transferable vote, transferableness, transferable skill, untransferable
- Related terms
- transferability