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say it: ri-FUR-uhl
referral is a noun meaning "a person whose case has been referred to a specialist or professional group". It is pronounced /ɹɪˈfɝəl/ — ri-FUR-uhl. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a person whose case has been referred to a specialist or professional group
“the patient is a referral from Dr. Bones”
a recommendation to consult the (professional) person or group to whom one has been referred
“the insurance company says that you need a written referral from your physician before seeing a specialist”
the act of referring (as forwarding an applicant for employment or referring a matter to an appropriate agency)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for referral come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.