clearance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪəɹən(t)s/
ipa: /ˈklɪɹən(t)s/
Forms: form: clearances
Etymology: From clear + -ance.
Senses: glosses: The act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared.
glosses: The distance between two moving objects, especially between parts of a machine
examples: text: When the scheme is completed, the 99-year-old swing bridge over the canal will be dispensed with as the new bridge will have sufficient height to allow clearance for the passage of canal traffic.
ref: 1954 February, “Notes and News: Deviation at Bramwith”, in Railway Magazine, page 137:
text: Piggybacking introduced severe clearance problems for many railroads.
ref: 1960 November, David Morgan, “""Piggyback"—U.S. success story”, in Trains Illustrated, page 684:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: The plane got clearance from air traffic control, and we were off.
text: He got clearance to travel to America, even though he had previous links to terrorists.
glosses: A permission for a vehicle to proceed, or for a person to travel.
examples: text: In a thread called “Calm Before the Storm”, and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other stuff.
ref: 2018 July 31, Julia Carrie Wong, “What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A permission to have access to sensitive or secret documents or other information.
glosses: A permission to use something, usually intellectual property, that is legally, but not otherwise, protected.
topics: business
commerce
retail
glosses: 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.
topics: banking
business
finance
glosses: The settlement of transactions involving securities or means of payment such as checks by means of a clearing house.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The removal of harmful substances from the blood; renal clearance.
topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
pool
snooker
sports
glosses: The act of potting all the remaining balls on a table at one visit.
examples: text: Bolton were then just inches from taking the lead, but the dangerous-looking Taylor drilled just wide after picking up a loose ball following Jose Bosingwa's poor attempted clearance.
ref: 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
synonyms: clearing
glosses: The act of kicking a ball away from the goal one is defending.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Removal of pieces from a rank, file or diagonal so that a bishop, rook or queen is free to move along it.
examples: text: There can, I believe, be no doubt of this, that sugar can be made better and cheaper in large quantities than in small. But the clearance, sir; that is the question. How would this affect the clearance? The sugar manufacturer would want his profit.
ref: 1859, Anthony Trollope, The West Indies and the Spanish Main:
glosses: Clear or net profit.
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: The first disposal in a chain that leaves the area of a stoppage, or a disposal that leaves the area of a stoppage itself.
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: The act of leaving the area of a stoppage.
Derived terms: clearance hole
clearance rate
clearance sale
clearance space
clearance time
customs clearance
ground clearance
immunoclearance
L clearance
nonclearance
police clearance certificate
preclearance
Q clearance
renal clearance
security clearance
seroclearance
total clearance