Definition of Transfer payment

1. Noun. A public expenditure (as for unemployment compensation or veteran's benefits) that is not for goods and services.

Generic synonyms: Expenditure, Outgo, Outlay, Spending

Definition of Transfer payment

1. Noun. A redistribution of income in the market system initiated by a government, such as welfare, social security, etc. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Transfer Payment

transfer DNA
transfer RNA
transfer agent
transfer agents
transfer agreement
transfer cell
transfer earnings
transfer factor
transfer function
transfer functions
transfer genes
transfer imaging
transfer list
transfer of training
transfer paper
transfer payment (current term)
transfer rate
transfer rates
transfer tax
transfer taxes
transfer window
transferability
transferable
transferable skill
transferable skills
transferal
transferals
transferase
transferase deficiency galactosaemia
transferases

Literary usage of Transfer payment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Contracting for Managed Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services: A Guide by Stephen Moss (2000)
"Risk-transfer payment Models Many States, counties, and regional authorities have now begun to develop and refine risk-transfer payment systems with MCOs. ..."

2. Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure by William Mack, Howard Pervear Nash (1903)
"PAYMENT то ORIGINAL HOLDER AFTER INDORSEMENT OR TRANSFER. Payment to the payee should generally be made only before indorsement by him, and where the maker ..."

3. Annotated Glossary of Terms Used in the Economic Analysis of Agricultural by James Price Gittinger (1994)
"transfer payment. A payment made without receiving any good or service in return (except, perhaps, the service involved in making the transfer payment). ..."

4. The Supreme Court of Judicature Acts and the Appellate Jurisdiction Act by Robert William Andrews, Arbuthnot Butler Stoney, Great Britain (1883)
"•whose application the order directing such transfer, payment, or deposit was made, or to such persons if they have no solicitor ; or if the order was made ..."

5. The Statutes, Rules of Court, and General Orders Relating to the Practice by George Osborne Morgan, Edward Albert Wurtzburg, Great Britain Court of Appeal (1885)
"transfer, or A person making a transfer, payment, or deposit upon request to the credit of a cause or matter, as provided by rule 25 (c) of the said rules, ..."

6. The Law Reports, Chancery Appeal Cases: Including Bankruptcy and Lunacy by Great Britain Court of Chancery (1872)
"The person making a transfer, payment, or deposit upon request to the credit of a cause or matter, as provided by the 10th of the Chancery Funds Rules, ..."

7. The Essence of Hayek by Friedrich August Hayek, Chiaki Nishiyama (1984)
"For each dollar of private income, the government transfer would be reduced 50 cents.16 Thus, a family of four would receive no transfer payment if it; ..."

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