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- (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈfɜː.ɹəl/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈfɝ.əl/
- (Indic) IPA(key): /rɪˈfɜrəl/, /ˈrɛfərəl/
- Rhymes: -ɜːɹəl
referral (countable and uncountable, plural referrals)
- The act or process of transferring someone or something to another, of sending by reference, or referring.
- Coordinate term: consultation
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.
- (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.
act or process of transferring
- Arabic: إِحَالَة (ʔiḥāla)
- Bulgarian: отпращане n (otpraštane), отнасяне към (otnasjane kǎm)
- Chinese:
- Danish: henvisning c
- Dutch: verwijzing (nl)
- Finnish: lähete (fi)
- German: Überweisung (de) f
- Hungarian: beutaló (hu) (by a family doctor to a specialist)
- Occitan: remandament m
- Polish: skierowanie (pl) n
- Portuguese: encaminhamento m
- Russian: направле́ние (ru) n (napravlénije)
- Serbo-Croatian: upućivanje
- Spanish: remisión (es) f, derivación (es) f
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