clearance
Meanings
noun
- 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.
- 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 permission to use something, usually intellectual property, that is legally, but not otherwise, protected.
- A sale of merchandise, especially at significantly reduced prices, usually in order to make room for new merchandise or updated versions of the same merchandise; sometimes as a closeout.
- The settlement of transactions involving securities or means of payment such as checks by means of a clearing house.
- The removal of harmful substances from the blood; renal clearance.
- The act of potting all the remaining balls on a table at one visit.
- The act of kicking a ball away from the goal one is defending.
- Removal of pieces from a rank, file or diagonal so that a bishop, rook or queen is free to move along it.
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Etymology
From clear + -ance.
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