clearance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: Etymology tree
English clear
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -iader.
Old French -ancebor.
Middle English -aunce
English -ance
English clearance
From clear + -ance.
Inflected forms:
form: clearances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In conclusion, it must be reiterated that effective snow clearance is largely a matter of forward planning and departmental co-operation.
gloss: The distance between two moving objects, especially between parts of a machine
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Clearance on these freeway overpasses is limited, so big trucks must detour.
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.
To obtain the required overhead clearance at Stockport, it will be necessary to open out the Edgeley tunnels.
Piggybacking introduced severe clearance problems for many railroads.
gloss: A permission for a vehicle to proceed, or for a person to travel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The plane got clearance from air traffic control, and we were off.
He got clearance to travel to America, even though he had previous links to terrorists.
gloss: A permission to have access to sensitive or secret documents or other information.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A permission to use something, usually intellectual property, that is legally, but not otherwise, protected.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The settlement of transactions involving securities or means of payment such as checks by means of a clearing house.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The removal of harmful substances from the blood; renal clearance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of potting all the remaining balls on a table at one visit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of kicking a ball away from the goal one is defending.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Removal of pieces from a rank, file or diagonal so that a bishop, rook or queen is free to move along it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Clear or net profit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The first disposal in a chain that leaves the area of a stoppage, or a disposal that leaves the area of a stoppage itself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of leaving the area of a stoppage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: 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
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