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transferable | Business English

transferable
adjective
uk /trænsˈfɜːrəbl̩/ us /-ˈfɝːə-/
able to be moved from one place or situation to another:
The file is not transferable to a disk or to another computer.
suitable for different situations or uses:
transferable to sthWe are sure this approach is transferable to all levels of the company.
allowed to become legally the property of another person:
Prizes are not transferable except to a surviving spouse.
Shares must be freely transferable.

Examples of transferable

transferable
Settlers brought with them the idea of land as a partible, bounded commodity, owned by an individual (or self-selected partnership), transferable and exclusive in perpetuity.
Only the essence of the unique and appropriate (not its form), is transferable to other works.
This book seeks to offer transferable learning - drawing lessons from elsewhere to help the new primary care organizations be more effective.
It is a transferable and convertible resource which helps mobilise support for, and secure influence with, political parties.
Several other teachers also spoke of the importance of transferable skills.
One institution they clearly ruled in was the single transferable vote.
These shares are freely transferable within the area, and with them the water.
Incidentally, his objections to definitions of faith in terms of assumptions are not transferable to definitions of faith in terms of commitments to assumptions. 23.
This method used with nurses was found to be transferable to parents.
Similarly, results of trials conducted in other countries or health care systems may not be readily transferable.
One way would be to deploy regulatory strategies such as zoning combined with compensatory schemes such as the transferable development rights mentioned above.
This model is not directly transferable to a specialist role in relation to public health capacity building.
They are valued because they are countable and transferable, and selfreproducing stores of milk, which like money is slippery.
What does competition look like in elections under the single non-transferable vote in multi-member districts?
The test becomes a tiny but highly transferable diagram of a procedure for the inscription of human difference into the calculations of authorities.
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