TRANSFER

Transfer

In professional football, a transfer is the action taken whenever a player under contract moves between clubs. It refers to the transferring of a player's registration from one association football club to another. In general, the players can only be transferred during a transfer window and according to the rules set by a governing body. Usually some sort of compensation is paid for the player's rights. When a player moves from one club to another, his old contract is terminated and he negotiates a new one with the club he is moving to, unlike in American, Canadian and Australian sports, where teams essentially trade existing player contracts. However, in some ...

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transfer

Noun

  1. The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
  2. An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
  3. A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
  4. A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
  5. A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.

Verb

  1. To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
    to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion
  2. To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
    to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone
  3. To be or become transferred.
  4. To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
    The title to land is transferred by deed.


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