'Clearance' definitions:
Definition of 'clearance'
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Definition of 'Clearance'
From: GCIDE
- Clearance \Clear"ance\ (kl[=e]r"ans), n.
- 1. The act of clearing; as, to make a thorough clearance. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the customhouse; permission to sail. [1913 Webster]
- Every ship was subject to seizure for want of stamped clearances. --Durke [1913 Webster]
- 3. Clear or net profit. --Trollope. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Mach.) The distance by which one object clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwheel tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages. [1913 Webster]
- Clearance space (Steam engine), the space inclosed in one end of the cylinder, between the valve or valves and the piston, at the beginning of a stroke; waste room. It includes the space caused by the piston's clearance and the space in ports, passageways, etc. Its volume is often expressed as a certain proportion of the volume swept by the piston in a single stroke. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'clearance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolution,
- acquitment,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- aesthetic distance,
- air space,
- allowance,
- amortization,
- amortizement,
- ample scope,
- approval,
- authority,
- authorization,
- back country,
- bill of health,
- binder,
- blank check,
- caesura,
- carte blanche,
- cash,
- cash payment,
- certification,
- cleaning out,
- clear space,
- clearing,
- compass,
- compurgation,
- consent,
- countenance,
- debt service,
- deep space,
- defecation,
- defrayal,
- defrayment,
- depletion,
- deportation,
- deposit,
- depths of space,
- desert,
- destigmatization,
- destigmatizing,
- detachment,
- disbursal,
- discard,
- discharge,
- discharging cargo,
- discontinuity,
- disculpation,
- disjunction,
- dismissal,
- disposal,
- disposition,
- distance,
- distance between,
- distant prospect,
- divergence,
- doling out,
- double space,
- down payment,
- drainage,
- draining,
- earnest,
- earnest money,
- egress,
- ejection,
- elbowroom,
- elimination,
- em space,
- empowerment,
- empty view,
- emptying,
- en space,
- enabling,
- endorsement,
- enfranchisement,
- entitlement,
- eradication,
- evacuation,
- excretion,
- exculpation,
- excuse,
- exhausting,
- exhaustion,
- exile,
- exoneration,
- expatriation,
- explanation,
- expulsion,
- extent,
- farness,
- fiat,
- field,
- forgiveness,
- free course,
- free hand,
- free play,
- free scope,
- freeboard,
- full pratique,
- full scope,
- full swing,
- gap,
- glade,
- headroom,
- hiatus,
- hire purchase,
- hire purchase plan,
- hole,
- infinity,
- installment,
- installment plan,
- interest payment,
- interim,
- intermediate space,
- interruption,
- interspace,
- interstice,
- interval,
- jump,
- justification,
- lacuna,
- latitude,
- leap,
- leave,
- Lebensraum,
- leeway,
- length,
- light-years,
- liquidation,
- living space,
- long rope,
- maneuvering space,
- margin,
- mileage,
- monthly payments,
- never-never,
- no holds barred,
- off-loading,
- open country,
- open space,
- ostracism,
- outback,
- outlawing,
- outlawry,
- pardon,
- parsecs,
- pass,
- passport,
- paying,
- paying off,
- paying out,
- paying up,
- payment,
- payment in kind,
- payoff,
- permission,
- perspective,
- piece,
- plain,
- play,
- prairie,
- pratique,
- prepayment,
- protection,
- purgation,
- purge,
- purging,
- quarterly payments,
- quietus,
- quittance,
- range,
- ratification,
- rationalization,
- reach,
- regular payments,
- rehabilitation,
- reinstatement,
- release,
- remission,
- remittance,
- remoteness,
- removal,
- restoration,
- retirement,
- riddance,
- room,
- room to spare,
- rope,
- safe-conduct,
- safeguard,
- sanction,
- satisfaction,
- scope,
- sea room,
- separation,
- settlement,
- severance,
- single space,
- sinking-fund payment,
- space,
- space between,
- span,
- spare room,
- spot cash,
- steppe,
- stretch,
- stride,
- suspension,
- swing,
- terrain,
- territory,
- time interval,
- tolerance,
- unloading,
- venting,
- verdict of acquittal,
- vindication,
- visa,
- voidance,
- voiding,
- warrant,
- warranty,
- way,
- ways,
- weekly payments,
- wide berth,
- wide-open spaces,
- wilderness,
- withdrawal