Vire

Origin

Old French vire, from virer to turn. Compare veer, vireton.

Full definition of vire

Noun

1. An arrow, having a rotary motion, formerly used with the crossbow.

Verb

1. to transfer a surplus from one account to cover a deficit in another, to make a virement.
• 1996, Derek Glover & Sue Law, Managing Professional Development in Education: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.
• 2005, House of Commons (United Kingdom), Prison Education Report:Prison education budgets were placed in the hands of prison governors who could vire money to other areas of the prisons.
• 2012, David Maclaren, "Changing the Civil Service", Managing Public Services:Because we cannot vire money between budgets, we buy more machines than we need, but cannot pay anyone to run them!