Transferable vs Convertible - What's the difference?
transferable | convertible |
able to be transferred
Able to be converted
(obsolete) Capable of being turned or rotated
* 1635 , Nathanael Carpenter, Geography Delineated Forth in Two Bookes (1.4.77)
Capable of being exchanged or interchanged, reciprocal, interchangeable
* 1843 , '', book 3, ch. VI, ''Two Centuries
(finance) Having the right to be converted into a different security, usually common stock, at the holder's option
A car whose roof can be removed or folded
(finance) A hybrid security that can be converted into stock
A portable computer that can be physically converted between laptop and tablet configurations.
As adjectives the difference between transferable and convertible
is that transferable is transferable (able to be transferred) while convertible is able to be converted.As a noun convertible is
a car whose roof can be removed or folded.transferable
English
Adjective
(-)- To start a new career, you need transferable skills.
Derived terms
* nontransferableconvertible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The Axis of the Earth is supposed to haue a convertible nature.
- As if, in truth, there were no God of Labour; as if godlike Labour and brutal Mammonism were convertible terms.
