"referral" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ɹɪˈfɝəl/ [General-American], /ɹɪˈfɜːɹəl/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: En-au-referral.ogg Forms: referrals [plural]
Rhymes: -ɜːɹəl Etymology: From refer + -al. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|refer|al}} refer + -al Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} referral (countable and uncountable, plural referrals)
  1. The act or process of transferring someone or something to another, of sending by reference, or referring. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (act or process of transferring): إِحَالَة (ʔiḥāla) (Arabic), отпращане (otpraštane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), отнасяне към (otnasjane kǎm) (Bulgarian), 转介 (zhuǎnjiè) (Chinese Mandarin), 转诊 (zhuǎnzhěn) (english: medical) (Chinese Mandarin), henvisning [common-gender] (Danish), verwijzing (Dutch), lähete (Finnish), Überweisung [feminine] (German), beutaló (english: by a family doctor to a specialist) (Hungarian), remandament [masculine] (Occitan), skierowanie [neuter] (Polish), encaminhamento [masculine] (Portuguese), направле́ние (napravlénije) [neuter] (Russian), upućivanje (Serbo-Croatian), remisión [feminine] (Spanish), derivación [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-referral-en-noun-r9qcpL92 Disambiguation of 'act or process of transferring': 96 4
  2. (slang) A document used by schools detailing some form of a student's misbehavior and listing the actions taken before and after the student's receipt of the referral. Tags: countable, slang, uncountable
    Sense id: en-referral-en-noun-ShfQvQg- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -al, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Occitan translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 87 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -al: 22 78 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 22 78 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 17 83 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 87 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 11 89 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 13 87 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 7 93 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 13 87 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 14 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 8 92 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Occitan translations: 14 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 15 85 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 10 90 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 13 87 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 10 90
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: referral spam, referral marketing Related terms: referent, referrer

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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