vire
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 4
Definition of vire
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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To transfer a surplus from one account to cover a deficit in another, to make a virement.
“For example, in 1993, only 8 per cent of the survey schools said that they were likely to vire funds if problems arose during the year.”
“Prison education budgets were placed in the hands of prison governors who could vire money to other areas of the prisons.”
“Because we cannot vire money between budgets, we buy more machines than we need, but cannot pay anyone to run them!”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Old French vire, from virer (“to turn”). Compare veer, vireton.
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