clearing
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪərɪŋ
Noun
clearing (countable and uncountable, plural clearings)
- The act or process of making or becoming clear.
- An area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:
- Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges […] : or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.
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- An open space in the fog etc.
- (banking, finance) A process of exchanging transaction information and authorisation through a central institution or system to complete and settle those transactions.
- (telecommunications) A sequence of events used to disconnect a call, and return to the ready state.
- (Britain, education) The period in which remaining university places are allocated to remaining students.
- (soccer) The act of removing the ball from one's own goal area by kicking it.
Synonyms
- (area devoid of trees): glade
Translations
act or process of making or becoming clear
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area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees
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open space in the fog etc
process of completing and settling transactions centrally
sequence of events used to disconnect a call
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Finnish
Declension
| Inflection of clearing (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | clearing | clearingit | |
| genitive | clearingin | clearingien | |
| partitive | clearingiä | clearingejä | |
| illative | clearingiin | clearingeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | clearing | clearingit | |
| accusative | nom. | clearing | clearingit |
| gen. | clearingin | ||
| genitive | clearingin | clearingien | |
| partitive | clearingiä | clearingejä | |
| inessive | clearingissä | clearingeissä | |
| elative | clearingistä | clearingeistä | |
| illative | clearingiin | clearingeihin | |
| adessive | clearingillä | clearingeillä | |
| ablative | clearingiltä | clearingeiltä | |
| allative | clearingille | clearingeille | |
| essive | clearinginä | clearingeinä | |
| translative | clearingiksi | clearingeiksi | |
| instructive | — | clearingein | |
| abessive | clearingittä | clearingeittä | |
| comitative | — | clearingeineen | |
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