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• wire transfer
  wire transfer

  noun

  an order transmitted by telephone, telegraph, or electronically from one bank to another to pay or credit money to a payee designated by a payer.
• wire-transfer
  wire-transfer

  verb (used with object)

  to transmit (money or credit) by wire transfer.

wire transfer

¹ American  

noun

wire transfers plural

1. an order transmitted by telephone, telegraph, or electronically from one bank to another to pay or credit money to a payee designated by a payer.

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wire-transfer ² American  

[wahyuhr-trans-fur, -trans-fer] / ˈwaɪər trænsˈfɜr, -ˈtræns fər /

verb (used with object)

wire-transferred, wire-transferring

1. to transmit (money or credit) by wire transfer.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• wire transfers
  plural

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In other cases, they want you to pay money — via cryptocurrency, wire transfer, gift cards, you name it.

From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026

For example, a few weeks after traders made nearly $90,000 in profits on his insider tip about an Amazon acquisition in 2020, Nourafchan received a $9,765 wire transfer, the court papers show.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

Three days after the arrest, Epstein's accountant Richard Kahn cancelled the wire transfer and the purchase was ultimately never completed.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026

In searching Herrling’s bank records, Lyndon Versoza, a postal inspector working the case, found a wire transfer in September 2021 from the sale of Tascon’s Encino home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026

Contact us if you want to arrange for a wire transfer or payment method other than by check or money order.

From The Perdue Chicken Cookbook by Perdue, Mitzi

Now a group of immigrants who say their remittances to family abroad were caught up in that massive warrantless dragnet is suing the government and the wire-transfer behemoth Western Union, which provided money transfer records.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2022

In late February, the group started getting hundreds of emails a day asking how to give, about wire-transfer information, and other questions — far more than one person could handle.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 23, 2022

The common internet come-on of foreign dignitaries offering wire-transfer riches in exchange for a little banking help echoes a 19th-century scam recalled in Byrnes’s book:

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2018

One safe harbor might protect a bank as long as it checks all wire-transfer information against relevant governmental and U.N. watch lists of criminals and suspected terrorists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2015

Foster put fake contract and deal account numbers in the wire-transfer instructions to make them seem like they were supporting an existing contract, before diverting them to his own accounts, prosecutors alleged.

From Reuters ● Jun. 27, 2011

The indictment alleges that on March 12, 2020, Maund wire-transferred $150,000 from his bank account to an account controlled by Peled.

From Fox News ● Dec. 14, 2021

The U.K. firm, Madoff Securities International Ltd., wire-transferred about $200,000 to Gaydon, England-based Aston Martin to buy the car for Peter Madoff, they said in court documents filed in 2009.

From BusinessWeek ● Jun. 15, 2011