Meaning & use

transferrable

adjective·Academic

Able to be moved, assigned, or passed on from one person, place, or thing to another.

See it in a sentence

The airline ticket was transferrable to another passenger for a small administrative fee.

Skills learned in one job are often transferrable to a completely different career.

A note on using this word

Transferrable and transferable are both accepted spellings; transferable is more common, especially in American English.

Words with a similar meaning

transferableassignable

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Words with an opposite meaning

non-transferable

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