clearance

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.

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.

(banking, finance) The settlement of transactions involving securities or means of payment such as checks by means of a clearing house.

(medicine) The removal of harmful substances from the blood; renal clearance.

Clear or net profit.

(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The act of potting all the remaining balls on a table at one visit.

(soccer) The act of kicking a ball away from the goal one is defending.

(chess) Removal of pieces from a rank, file or diagonal so that a bishop, rook or queen is free to move along it.

(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.

(Australian rules football) The act of leaving the area of a stoppage.

Roots

clarusclear- · Latin · clear, bright

Synonyms for clearance

headroomn clearingn authorizationn

Words related to clearance

closeoutn clearedadj approvalsn salen discountn overstocksv clearsv markdownn

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