"referral" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ɹɪˈfɝəl/ [General-American], /ɹɪˈfɜːɹəl/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: En-au-referral.ogg [Australia] Forms: referrals [plural]
Rhymes: -ɜːɹəl Etymology: 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): 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 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 8 92 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -al: 20 80
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: referral marketing Related terms: referent, referrer

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