voluntary transfer

collocation in English

meaningsofvoluntaryandtransfer

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voluntary
adjective
uk
/ˈvɒl.ən.tər.i/us
/ˈvɑː.lən.ter.i/
done, made, or given willingly, without being forced or paid to ...
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transfer
noun
uk
/ˈtræns.fɜːr/us
/ˈtræns.fɝː/
the movement of something or someone from one place, position, etc. ...
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(Definition ofvoluntaryandtransferfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Voluntarytransfercan be sought by an individual official, as a protest.
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Voluntarytransferrefers to the process by which policy-makers freely choose to adopt policies or practices from another place or time.
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Voluntarytransferoccurs when a sovereign state unilaterally adopts policy from an external source.
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Voluntarytransferhas historically proven to be difficult: the market for land is traditionally quite sticky for a variety of reasons, including the social and political role of landownership.
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Smith, in fact, says that a physical attachment is required for all forms of property acquisition, including the derivative forms such asvoluntarytransferand prescription.
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Thevoluntarytransferto a local housing association —one that emerges from a local authority—is akin to a management buyout.
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We should encourage local authorities to be more inventive with their reserves from large-scalevoluntarytransfer.
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The best example is large-scalevoluntarytransfer, in which council house tenants can choose a new landlord.
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This does not allow for the effect of load spreading orvoluntarytransferof demand from the peak.
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Five years ago, it carried out the large-scalevoluntarytransferof 500 houses.
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I make no apology for wanting to talk about some of the local implications, because my authority is pursuing the large-scalevoluntarytransferscheme.
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Numbers of council dwellings transferring annually under large scalevoluntarytransfersince 1997 have been as follows.
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The reaction of council tenants to thevoluntarytransferof their estates has not been very positive.
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Since 1988, 35 local authorities have transferred a total of 156,739 homes through large scalevoluntarytransfer.
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They know that they cannot go ahead with a large-scalevoluntarytransferunder the terms that they promised the electorate at the general election.
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It is important that those authorities that eschew large-scalevoluntarytransferare not penalised.
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In the case of avoluntarytransfer, the involvement of the corporation is not necessary.
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I see the difference between an automatic transfer and avoluntarytransfer.
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For my money, the best route of all is large-scalevoluntarytransfer.
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Voluntarytransferof council housing stocks is one of the options a local authority may consider in developing its housing strategy.
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