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Word: clearance (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A permission for a vehicle to proceed, or for a person to travel.
  • A permission to have access to sensitive or secret documents or other information
  • A sale of merchandise at a reduced price.
  • finance The settlement of transactions involving securities or means of payment such as checks by means of a clearing house.
  • medicine The removal of harmful substances from the blood; renal clearance.
  • billiards|snooker|pool The act of potting all the remaining balls on a table at one visit.
  • The act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared
  • The distance between two moving objects, especially between parts of a machine
  • The height or width of a tunnel, bridge or other passage, or the distance between a vehicle and the walls or roof of such passage; a gap, headroom.

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