transfer
verb (used with object)
to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another.
had transferred
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past perfectof transfer.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Iowa’s had six guys who had transferred from Drake in the Missouri Valley Conference—including one, guard Bennett Stirtz, who had tagged along with McCollum since the D-II days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
It was only after an intervention from friends - and as her mental health began to stabilise - that she realised how much money she had transferred.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
By early 2022, the couple had transferred $95,000 into a surrogacy escrow account, and an IVF clinic transferred two embryos supplied by Scott and St-Fleur into Trent-Wilson’s uterus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025
Mr Love had transferred £200 to Fraser on the day of the offence, Mr Stott said.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025
But in a survey from March 2002 to March 2003, the Census Bureau said that about three million people moved to another county, state, or country because employers had transferred or recruited them.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
