transfer market

plural transfer markets

1. hobbiesThe system by which players are transferred between teams, including the fees involved for teams making such transfers.

   Dr Raffaele Poli heads the CIES Football Observatory, which analyses the transfer market and the performance of players.

   2018, Alan Gernon, Transfer Market

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   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

   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

2. broadlyAny system, whether formal or informal, by which something is transferred between organizations and/or individuals.

   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

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   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