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third-person singular simple present vires, present participle viring, simple past and past participle vired
To transfer a surplus from one account to cover a deficit in another, to make a virement. quotations examples
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
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