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referral

UK/ɹɪˈfɜː.ɹəl/US/ɹɪˈfɝ.əl/

referral noun: the act or process of transferring someone or something to another, of sending by reference, or referring.

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.
    • The insurance company insists I get a referral from my regular doctor. I can't just go to the specialist; a GP has got to refer me.
  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.
    • After misbehaving in class, George was given a referral for disrupting class and sent to the office.

referral meaning in Bengali and Arabic

referral in Bengali

স্থানান্তর, বিশেষজ্ঞের কাছে প্রেরণ, সুপারিশ

referral in Arabic

act or process of transferring
إِحَالَة ʔiḥāla

Examples of referral in a sentence

  • The referral was to a proctologist to treat the hemorrhoids.
  • The referral was to a coloproctologist to treat the hemorrhoids.
  • I have read over the associated email corro and referral docs.

All 16 example sentences with referral

Forms of referral

pluralreferrals

Plural of referral: referrals

Origin of referral

From refer + -al.

Words formed from referral

Words that rhyme with referral

Questions about referral

What does referral mean?
Referral means the act or process of transferring someone or something to another, of sending by reference, or referring.
What is referral in Bengali?
Referral in Bengali is স্থানান্তর, বিশেষজ্ঞের কাছে প্রেরণ, সুপারিশ. See Referral meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is referral?
Referral is a noun.
How do you pronounce referral?
Referral is pronounced /ɹɪˈfɜː.ɹəl/ (UK).
What is the plural of referral?
The plural of referral is referrals.

Words near referral in the dictionary

  1. refermionizations
  2. referologist
  3. referologists
  4. referrability
  5. referrable
  6. referral
  7. referral marketing
  8. referral spam
  9. referrals
  10. referred
  11. referred pain

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: referral (page history and authors); referral (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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