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

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4 lettersPronunciation /vaɪə(ɹ)/Sorted eirvStarts with VEnds with E0 clues

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

From Old French vire, from virer (“to turn”). Compare veer, vireton.

“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!”

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