transferable
Americanadjective
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Explanation
If something can be transferred from one person to another, it's transferable. That's good news, if you're talking about front-row tickets to the Mariah Carey concert. One way that anthropologists decide whether a group has a "culture" is by determining whether the skills and habits they practice are transferable from one generation to the next. For example, chimps are known to teach their young how to use twigs to fish for grubs. That means the skill gets passed on — it's transferable. In the legal or financial sense, transferable refers to something the value of which can be passed from one person to another. Remember: those airline tickets aren't transferable: only you can use them!
Vocabulary lists containing transferable
Example Sentences
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The result offers an early indication that at least part of APOE2's protective effect may be transferable rather than being limited to people born with the gene variant.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
If you did get laid off in five years, how transferable would your skills be, and would it be possible to find a similar role closer to where you live?
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 24, 2026
Air-traffic control was all he had known, and he thought his skill set wouldn’t be easily transferable to another career.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
"So you don't know whether or not it's transferable."
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026
Simple, direct, and transferable to all men, all women, all people of all nations of the earth.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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