vire

present singular third person vires · participle present viring · participle past vired · past vired

1. To transfer a surplus from one account to cover a deficit in another, to make a virement.

   Because we cannot vire money between budgets, we buy more machines than we need, but cannot pay anyone to run them!

   2012, David Maclaren, “Changing the Civil Service”, in Managing Public Services

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   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.

   1996, Derek Glover, Sue Law, Managing Professional Development in Education

   Prison education budgets were placed in the hands of prison governors who could vire money to other areas of the prisons.

   2005, Prison Education Report, United Kingdom: House of Commons