Usually means: Indicates, points to, or mentions.
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  1. refers: Merriam-Webster
  2. refers: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. refers: Collins English Dictionary
  4. refers: Vocabulary.com
  5. Refers, refers: Wordnik
  6. refers: Wiktionary
  7. refers: Dictionary.com
  8. refers: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. refers: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. refers: Encyclopedia

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  1. refers: Idioms

(Note: See refer as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (refer)

verb:  (transitive) To direct the attention of (someone toward something)
verb:  (transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
verb:  (transitive) To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation.
verb:  (intransitive) To mention (something); to direct attention (to something)
verb:  (intransitive, stative) To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to.
verb:  (grammar) To be referential to another element in a sentence.
verb:  (intransitive, programming) To point to either a specific location in computer memory or to a specific object. [with to]
verb:  (transitive, education) To require to resit an examination.
verb:  (intransitive, of a term or name) To have the meaning of, to denote.
noun:  (journalism) A blurb on the front page of a newspaper issue or section that refers the reader to the full story inside the issue or section by listing its slug or headline and its page number.
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