About The Word Clearing
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Clearing
| Clearing Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Clearing?
[n] the act of removing solid particles from a liquid
[n] the act of freeing from suspicion [n] a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area Synonyms | Synonyms for Clearing: clarification | glade Related Terms | Find terms related to Clearing: absolution | acquittal | acquittance | air space | aperture | back country | breaking out | broaching | cavity | chasm | check | cleaning out | clear space | clearance | cleft | compurgation | corn field | crack | cultivated land | defecation | depletion | desert | destigmatization | destigmatizing | disburdening | discharge | discharging cargo | disclosure | disculpation | disembarrassment | disembroilment | disencumbrance | disengagement | disentanglement | disinvolvement | dislodgment | dismissal | distant prospect | drainage | draining | egress | elimination | empty view | emptying | evacuation | excretion | exculpation | excuse | exhausting | exhaustion | exoneration | explanation | extrication | fenestra | field | fistula | fontanel | foramen | forgiveness | freeing | gap | gape | gat | glade | gulf | hayfield | hiatus | hole | hollow | inlet | interval | justification | lacuna | laying open | leak | Lebensraum | living space | off-loading | open country | open space | opening | opening up | orifice | outback | outlet | paddy | parcel of land | pardon | passageway | patch | piece of land | plain | plat | plot | pore | prairie | purgation | purging | quietus | quittance | rationalization | rehabilitation | reinstatement | release | releasing | remission | removal | restoration | rice paddy | slot | space | split | steppe | stoma | terrain | territory | throwing open | tract | uncluttering | uncorking | unhampering | unknotting | unloading | unraveling | unscrambling | unsnarling | unstopping | untangling | venting | verdict of acquittal | vindication | voidance | voiding | wheat field | wide-open spaces | wilderness | yawn See Also | exoneration | freeing | improvement | liberation | parcel | parcel of land | piece of ground | piece of land | purgation | purge | purging | release | tract | vindication | whitewash Clearing In Webster's Dictionary \Clear"ing\, n.
1. The act or process of making clear.
The better clearing of this point. --South.
2. A tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation.
A lonely clearing on the shores of Moxie Lake. --J.
Burroughs.
3. A method adopted by banks and bankers for making an
exchange of checks held by each against the others, and
settling differences of accounts.
Note: In England, a similar method has been adopted by
railroads for adjusting their accounts with each other.
4. The gross amount of the balances adjusted in the clearing
house.
{Clearing house}, the establishment where the business of
clearing is carried on. See {above}, {3}.
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