Word.ws English Dictionary

transfer market

transfer market noun: the system by which players are transferred between teams, including the fees involved for teams making such transfers.

Noun

transfer market (plural transfer markets)

  1. The system by which players are transferred between teams, including the fees involved for teams making such transfers.
    • It would be more significant if the initial distribution of playing talent, before clubs start to trade players on the transfer market, were more equal.2006, Wladimir Andreff, Stefan Szymanski, Handbook on the Economics of Sport, page 638
    • Dr Raffaele Poli heads the CIES Football Observatory, which analyses the transfer market and the performance of players.2018, Alan Gernon, Transfer Market
  2. (broadly) Any system, whether formal or informal, by which something is transferred between organizations and/or individuals.
    • It is safe to say that the middle transfer market is becoming more mature—but not in the sense that it more nearly resembles the public transfer market.2009, Richard M. Trottier, Middle Market Strategies
    • In 1983, the State Science and technology Commission issued "to strength technology transfer and technical services," which marks the beginning of the technology transfer market.2016, Sifeng Liu, Zhigeng Fang, Hongxing Shi, Theory of Science and Technology Transfer and Applications, page 23

Examples of transfer market in a sentence

  • However, the net spending on playing talent in the transfer market (i.e. paid transfer fees minus received transfer fees) has not increased.2019, Paul Downward, Bernd Frick, Brad R. Humphreys, The SAGE Handbook of Sports Economics, page 204:
  • Some of the players were concerned about what the future held for them – given that one of the measures involved Chelsea not being able to operate in the transfer market or offer new contracts.March 11 2022, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian:
  • Province has called for speeding up the establishment of a rural property rights transfer market.2022, Sun Wenkai, Population and Labour Market Policies in China’s Reform Process, page 19:

Forms of transfer market

pluraltransfer markets

Questions about transfer market

What does transfer market mean?
Transfer market means the system by which players are transferred between teams, including the fees involved for teams making such transfers.
How do you use transfer market in a sentence?
However, the net spending on playing talent in the transfer market (i.e. paid transfer fees minus received transfer fees) has not increased.
What part of speech is transfer market?
Transfer market is a noun.
What is the plural of transfer market?
The plural of transfer market is transfer markets.

Words near transfer market in the dictionary

  1. transfer fee
  2. transfer function
  3. transfer functions
  4. transfer list
  5. transfer lists
  6. transfer market
  7. transfer markets
  8. transfer paper
  9. transfer papers
  10. transfer payment
  11. transfer payments

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: transfer market (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “transfer market.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/transfer_market. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.