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▸ noun: The distance between two moving objects, especially between parts of a machine
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: A permission for a vehicle to proceed, or for a person to travel.
▸ noun: A permission to have access to sensitive or secret documents or other information.
▸ noun: A permission to use something, usually intellectual property, that is legally, but not otherwise, protected.
▸ noun: (retail) 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.
▸ noun: (banking, finance) The settlement of transactions involving securities or means of payment such as checks by means of a clearing house.
▸ noun: (medicine) The removal of harmful substances from the blood; renal clearance.
▸ noun: (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The act of potting all the remaining balls on a table at one visit.
▸ noun: (soccer) The act of kicking a ball away from the goal one is defending.
▸ noun: (chess) Removal of pieces from a rank, file or diagonal so that a bishop, rook or queen is free to move along it.
▸ noun: Clear or net profit.
▸ noun: (Australian rules football) The first disposal in a chain that leaves the area of a stoppage, or a disposal that leaves the area of a stoppage itself.
▸ noun: (Australian rules football) The act of leaving the area of a stoppage.
Similar:
headway,
headroom,
clearence,
clearage,
clearing,
outclearing,
clear-up,
clarification,
total clearance,
cleanse,
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